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M 1.5ml

7 km SSE of Freeport, Kansas

· 4.2 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 22 kmSumner County 31 kmGrant County 39 kmKingman County 54 kmAlfalfa County 63 kmSedgwick County 68 kmKay County 70 kmBarber County 77 kmGarfield County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 22 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3565 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 6.2 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 37.1360, -97.8223. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 22 km (14 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sumner County, KS 31 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kingman County, KS 54 km (34 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Alfalfa County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sedgwick County, KS 68 km (43 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

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

  1. 1.7 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  2. 2.7 8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  3. 3.4 10 km SSW of Spivey, Kansas
  4. 1.7 5 km ENE of Mayfield, Kansas
  5. 1.6 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  6. 1.7 5 km SSE of Harper, Kansas
  7. 1.6 6 km SSE of Harper, Kansas
  8. 2.6 7 km SSW of Cheney, Kansas
  9. 3.1 4 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  10. 1.8 5 km ENE of Mayfield, Kansas
  11. 1.5 3 km NW of Anthony, Kansas
  12. 1.5 8 km NNW of Argonia, Kansas
  13. 2.5 5 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 5 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 5 km ENE of Danville, Kansas

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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