Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near South Hutchinson in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from South Hutchinson in Kansas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019vnge, us700062gb. Id of event: us700062gb. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.9764° West, 38.0358° North. Global time and date of event 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 02:08:57 / November 3, 2019 @ 2:08 am UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:08:57 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Hutchinson (c. 42 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Newton (c. 19 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Great Bend (c. 16 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pratt, Great Bend, Haysville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km WNW of South Hutchinson, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.9764° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0358° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WNW of South Hutchinson, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-03 02:08:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-03 02:19:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	62	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.772	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	181	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us700062gb	Id of event.
Event Code	700062gb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019vnge,us700062gb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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