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Earthquakes in Kansas

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0 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in Kansas. Normal for here is 2 to 8 in a week.

Compared against Kansas's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M1.9–M2.8), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Kansas

None in Kansas in the latest snapshot we hold; the full 7 days load from USGS as this page opens.

Source USGS · snapshot of

Where this is

Centre 38.509, -97.313 — the mean of this state’s place centroids, from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity is measured across a rectangle drawn around the state, so a few earthquakes just over its border are counted too.

Largest on record in and around Kansas

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 4.6 2 km SSE of Zurich, Kansas
M 4.5 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
M 4.5 2 km W of South Hutchinson, Kansas
M 4.4 8 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
M 4.4 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
M 4.3 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
M 4.3 6 km SSW of Gypsum, Kansas
M 4.2 6 km SW of Manchester, Oklahoma

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Kansas, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Counties in Kansas

After an earthquake here