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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 5 km W of Andover, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.7197S, -97.2024WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Andover in Kansas. Unique identifier: us7000cqtw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cqtw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/20 / 2020-12-13 17:26:46 / December 13, 2020 @ 5:26 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -97.2024° West, 37.7197° North, depth 5 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:26:46 / 5:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Hutchinson, Winfield (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 12 km (8 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hutchinson (c. 42 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Newton (c. 19 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from El Dorado (c. 13 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km W of Andover, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.2024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km W of Andover, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-13 17:26:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-13 18:43:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 133 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 0.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000cqtw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cqtw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cqtw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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