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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Paradise in Kansas

Posted by admin on July 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.0877S, -98.8779WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Paradise in Kansas on Sunday. Global time and date of event 27/07/25 / 2025-07-27 03:39:13 / July 27, 2025 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:39:13 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.8779° West, latitude 39.0877° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvfa. Id of event: us6000qvfa. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km SE of Paradise, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.8779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km SE of Paradise, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-27 03:39:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-27 03:46:24 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 129 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us6000qvfa Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qvfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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