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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Esbon in Kansas


Earthquake location 39.7274S, -98.3757WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Esbon in Kansas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/21 / 2021-01-14 05:05:21 / January 14, 2021 @ 5:05 am. Exact location of earthquake, -98.3757° West, 39.7274° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was reported at 05:05:21 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000d87i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d87i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concordia. Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 11 km SSE of Esbon, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3757° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSE of Esbon, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-14 05:05:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-14 05:56:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 121 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 1.329 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 93 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 us6000d87i Id of event.
Event Code 6000d87i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d87i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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