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M 1.5ml

12 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas

· 4.7 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 20 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3539 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.1348, -97.6738. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 20 km (12 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 59 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Kingman County, KS 62 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sedgwick County, KS 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

56 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.9 3 km SE of Harper, Kansas
  2. 2.6 7 km WSW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 11 km E of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 2.8 9 km S of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 2 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 2.9 7 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 5 km NNE of Lamont, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 11 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  9. 2.1 5 km SW of Mayfield, Kansas
  10. 2.0 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  11. 1.5 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  12. 1.9 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 1.7 10 km NW of Caldwell, Kansas
  14. 2.6 9 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 9 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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