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M 2.0ml

Kansas

· 4.4 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 21 kmSumner County 32 kmGrant County 41 kmKingman County 52 kmAlfalfa County 64 kmSedgwick County 68 kmKay County 72 kmBarber County 76 kmGarfield County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 21 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3735 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 37.1518, -97.8373. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 21 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sumner County, KS 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kingman County, KS 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Alfalfa County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sedgwick County, KS 68 km (42 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

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

  1. 1.6 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  2. 2.4 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 2.1 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 2.2 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  5. 2.5 5 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 2.8 6 km ESE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 6 km SW of Manchester, Oklahoma
  9. 3.0 8 km SE of Byron, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 4 km NNE of Freeport, Kansas
  11. 1.9 8 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  12. 1.5 Kansas
  13. 1.6 2 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 2.5 6 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 8 km NNE of Mayfield, 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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