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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Hill City in Kansas

Posted by admin on July 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.203S, -99.8404WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hill City in Kansas on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:49:51 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.8404 West, latitude 39.203 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 10:49:51 / July 29, 2025 @ 10:49 am. Event id: us6000qvwv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvwv.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays. Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Hill City, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.8404° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.203° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km S of Hill City, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-29 10:49:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 11:03:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000qvwv Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvwv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qvwv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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