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Wichita records largest earthquake in at least 5 years
December 19, 2020 GMT
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Multiple earthquakes rattled Wichita on Saturday, with the largest measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale.
That makes the trembler the largest on record in the city in the last five years, although its still is considered relatively small. The threshold for damage usually starts at 4.0.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the earthquake was recorded at 12:47 p.m. with an epicenter near where around a dozen tremblers had been reported in the past month.
The Kansas Geological Survey reported at least two others happened Saturday one with a magnitude of 3.0 at 11:42 a.m. and another with a 2.9 magnitude at 12:40 p.m. A possible fourth quake also may have taken place around 12:52 p.m.
Anonymous
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They don t feel squat they just have to lie to gain 2 seconds of attention. I have been sitting here on a concrete slab on ground level at a complex in south Johnson county on duty monitoring traffic in a steel hard ass office chair and felt nothing.
Other regions of the country have these mini shakes and three miles away the locals didn t even know it took place.
I have felt things before and head to the U.S. Geological Survey to find out nothing happened. I work close to a operating quarry where they blast almost every week and will hear that blast and feel not a thing. Unless it s a decent size earthquake people unless right beside it won t fell it the media just makes them think they did.
Wed, 12/16/2020
LAWRENCE A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in western Kansas measuring groundwater levels the first week of January.
Levels are measured annually as part of a joint project conducted by the KGS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) to monitor the health of the state’s valuable groundwater resources.
Weather permitting, the KGS crew will be working in the following areas:
Jan. 4: Near Colby and Atwood
Jan. 5: Goodland and St. Francis
Jan. 6: Tribune, Syracuse and Ulysses
Jan. 7: Elkhart and Liberal
Jan. 8: Meade and Dodge City.
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