Another Earthquake

[1972Shocker]

Holy Crap. Maybe the biggest shake yet at my house. 5:05 am, Wednesday morning. Loudest and longest shake. I could do without that.

[MoValley John]

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[1972Shocker]

There was a 2.7 magnitude earthquake recorded by the KGS this morning at about 4:20 AM (south of 13th and east of Greenwich). The USGS doesn't have any report yet.

KGS Earthquakes (ku.edu)

Yeah, I felt that one and it woke me up in the 29th and Rock area. Located where most of the recent quakes have been centered. In fact this one is 2 house south of where I used to live.

[1979Shocker]

There was a 2.7 magnitude earthquake recorded by the KGS this morning at about 4:20 AM (south of 13th and east of Greenwich). The USGS doesn't have any report yet.

KGS Earthquakes (ku.edu)

[WstateU]

Well, frack it!

https://www.kake.com/story/43096185/wichita-earthquakes-not-tied-to-oil-and-gas-activity-kcc-says

[1979Shocker]

Thanks ShockTalk and 1979Shocker - good to know! I had viewed that post yesterday on my phone and the mobile view just showed a list of the quakes and no map. But now that I look at it on desktop I can see where the desktop version shows the map with them on it as well.

When you're on the USGS webpage on you phone, you can switch to the map by clicking the globe icon in the upper right.

[ShockTalk]

Not going to start another thread, so I'll just post this page here from the USGS on this latest happening.

https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/photo-and-video-chronology-k-lauea-december-20-2020

[ShockTalk]

The Island of Hawaii is trying to take our earthquake thunder. A 4.4 was reported last night in the area of the Volcanoes National Park. The lake that had been forming in the cave-in of the Halema'uma'u crater within the Kilauea crater has been replaced by lava.

I follow all this because we were on the Big Island at the time of the 6.6 earthquake in 2018 which was the beginning of the later cave-in and floor-drop within Kilauea and the fissures that opened up east of there and the lava flows.

The Park Service actually re-opened a small part of the park a few days after the quake only to close again a couple of days after that. We were able to get into the park within those few days it had re-opened and got pictures and video from the crater rim of a large ash plume that was created by a slide of rock that fell into the lava crater from it's beginning to end.

[SB Shock]

An alternative means for viewing the EQ is from the IRIS Earthquake browser.

https://ds.iris.edu/ieb/index.html?format=text&nodata=404&starttime=2020-11-01&endtime=2020-12-21&orderby=time-desc&src=usgs&limit=100&maxlat=37.9202&minlat=37.4965&maxlon=-96.8713&minlon=-97.6370&zm=11&mt=ter

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[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

As 1979Shocker pointed out to me on post #144, you can do custom searches on the USGS page, so they do map below 2.5. The time period to be mapped also has a few options.

Thanks ShockTalk and 1979Shocker - good to know! I had viewed that post yesterday on my phone and the mobile view just showed a list of the quakes and no map. But now that I look at it on desktop I can see where the desktop version shows the map with them on it as well.

[ShockTalk]

Breaking news: The City of Wichita is hiring a law firm to investigate things after 7+ quakes were entered in the USGS earthquake portal on Saturday. Some quakes had minor impact and some more significant impact. The media reports issues may have started 5 years ago due to a lazy fracker with Oklahoma ties, but no one knows due to the lack of transparency from any aftershocks. David Kyles has tweeted things were just as bad when he was in Wichita.

As 1979Shocker pointed out to me on post #144, you can do custom searches on the USGS page, so they do map below 2.5. The time period to be mapped also has a few options.

[pinstripers]

Breaking news: The City of Wichita is hiring a law firm to investigate things after 7+ quakes were entered in the USGS earthquake portal on Saturday. Some quakes had minor impact and some more significant impact. The media reports issues may have started 5 years ago due to a lazy fracker with Oklahoma ties, but no one knows due to the lack of transparency from any aftershocks. David Kyles has tweeted things were just as bad when he was in Wichita.

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[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Breaking news: The City of Wichita is hiring a law firm to investigate things after 7+ quakes were entered in the USGS earthquake portal on Saturday. Some quakes had minor impact and some more significant impact. The media reports issues may have started 5 years ago due to a lazy fracker with Oklahoma ties, but no one knows due to the lack of transparency from any aftershocks. David Kyles has tweeted things were just as bad when he was in Wichita.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

USGS reported one at the same time (2.1 magnitude).

I said they didn't report it but I should have said they didn't map it. I was looking at the page on their site with the map and it looks like it only maps the ones with 2.5+

Looks like someone set up a twitter bot to retweet Kansas quakes from USGS - https://twitter.com/ICTQuakes It appears there was a 1.9 Sunday morning at 1:08 am and then the 2.9 at 2:20 am.

[MoValley John]

natural gas explosion?

That was the first thought, then it came out that the grandma that lived there had just filed an epo against her grandson, fearing for her life and that he had threatened to burn down the house. Meth user. So maybe a natural gas explosion, maybe murder. Both the grandma and grandson died. House is completely gone and the two neighbors houses are a mess. I live six miles away, felt a huge jolt go through the floor, followed by the boom. Really weird. And sad.