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M 1.5ml

Kansas

· 7.7 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 13 kmGrant County 38 kmSumner County 46 kmAlfalfa County 50 kmKingman County 54 kmBarber County 64 kmSedgwick County 80 kmKay County 81 kmGarfield County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 13 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3573 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 37.0887, -97.9840. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 38 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 46 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Alfalfa County, OK 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Kingman County, KS 54 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Barber County, KS 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 3 km WSW of Nash, Oklahoma
  2. 2.1 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 1.6 6 km ENE of Milan, Kansas
  4. 1.6 6 km ENE of Milan, Kansas
  5. 1.9 6 km WNW of Mayfield, Kansas
  6. 1.6 11 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 1.7 5 km E of Manchester, Oklahoma
  8. 2.9 3 km SE of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  9. 1.8 5 km NNE of Bluff City, Kansas
  10. 1.5 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  11. 2.0 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  12. 2.7 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  13. 2.0 5 km NNE of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.9 6 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas
  15. 2.0 1 km NNE of Manchester, 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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