Earthquake monitors being installed in south-central Kansas

LAWRENCE — Kansas Geological Survey officials say four temporary seismic monitoring stations have been installed in south-central Kansas to monitor increased earthquake activity in Harper, Sumner and Barber counties, and three more stations are expected to be deployed by the end of January.

“The number of felt earthquakes is increasing. There were far more earthquakes (this year) than last year,” Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence, said in mid-December. “We do see them in clusters in that area of Kansas.”

[link to m.cjonline.com]