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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Wilson in Kansas

Posted by admin on December 4, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8635S, -98.5108WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Wilson in Kansas. Unique identifier: us7000rfm4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rfm4. Global time and date of event 04/12/25 / 2025-12-04 20:02:26 / December 4, 2025 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.55 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.5108° West, 38.8635° North, depth 9.55 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:02:26 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Great Bend (c. 16 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays, Great Bend (min 5000 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 5 km NW of Wilson, 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 -98.5108° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NW 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 2025-12-04 20:02:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-04 20:13:12 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 2.7 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000rfm4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rfm4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rfm4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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