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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Marion in Kansas


Earthquake location 38.3882S, -96.9095WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Marion in Kansas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:19:35 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007jly. Id of event: us60007jly. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.9095 West, latitude 38.3882 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 23:19:35 / January 29, 2020 @ 11:19 pm.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Emporia (c. 24 900 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Newton (c. 19 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salina, Augusta, Andover. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ENE of Marion, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Marion, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-29 23:19:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 23:30:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 148 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 0.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us60007jly Id of event.
Event Code 60007jly An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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