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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Harper in Kansas

Posted by admin on May 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2353S, -97.8842WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Harper in Kansas. The temblor was detected at 17:36:48 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008pi7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008pi7. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/17 / 2017-05-04 23:36:48 / May 4, 2017 @ 11:36 pm. Exact location of event, depth 2.75 km, -97.8842° West, 37.2353° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.75 km (2 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valley Center, Park City, Winfield.

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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km ESE of Harper, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8842° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Harper, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-04 23:36:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-04 23:50:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.26 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 189 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 0.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10008pi7 Id of event.
Event Code 10008pi7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008pi7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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