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M 1.7ml

5 km ENE of Mayfield, Kansas

· 1.7 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
1.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 5 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3730 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 37.2832, -97.4877. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 5 km (3 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Sedgwick County, KS 44 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Harper County, KS 52 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Cowley County, KS 58 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Kay County, OK 60 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Grant County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km NNE of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 1.5 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 2.0 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 2.7 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  5. 2.0 5 km NNE of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 1.9 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 1.8 9 km SE of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 2.3 9 km SE of Bluff City, Kansas
  9. 1.6 2 km E of Anthony, Kansas
  10. 2.2 2 km SE of Milan, Kansas
  11. 1.7 5 km NE of Danville, Kansas
  12. 1.6 5 km NNE of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 2.0 6 km ENE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 5 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  15. 1.5 1 km N of Bluff City, 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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