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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near South Hutchinson in Kansas

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from South Hutchinson in Kansas on Sunday. Event id: us60007att. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007att. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.63 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9697 West, latitude 38.0197 North, depth = 4.63 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:08:41 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 19:08:41 / January 19, 2020 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Hutchinson (c. 42 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Newton (c. 19 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Great Bend (c. 16 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Augusta, Mulvane, Derby (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km WSW of South Hutchinson, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.9697° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WSW 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	2020-01-19 19:08:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-19 19:24:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	338	The total number of felt reports
CDI	7.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		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	551	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	,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	0.025	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60007att	Id of event.
Event Code	60007att	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007att,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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