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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Wilson in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8744S, -98.4702WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Wilson in Kansas on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 22:16:55 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4702 West, latitude 38.8744 North, depth = 6.15 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/25 / 2025-10-30 22:16:55 / October 30, 2025 @ 10:16 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.15 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rkh4. Id of event: us6000rkh4.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salina, Hays, Great Bend (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Great Bend (c. 16 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 5 km N of Wilson, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km N of Wilson, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-30 22:16:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-30 22:34:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 149 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us6000rkh4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkh4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkh4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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