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M 1.5ml

5 km S of Argonia, Kansas

· 7.5 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 25 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3581 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 37.2165, -97.7770. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 25 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 26 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 48 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kingman County, KS 50 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sedgwick County, KS 59 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Kay County, OK 72 km (45 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 1 km SE of Anthony, Kansas
  2. 1.9 1 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  3. 1.6 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  4. 3.1 5 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  5. 2.8 6 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 6 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma
  7. 2.9 6 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma
  8. 2.4 4 km WSW of Harper, Kansas
  9. 2.5 5 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  10. 3.9 6 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  11. 2.3 4 km WSW of Harper, Kansas
  12. 2.2 4 km WSW of Harper, Kansas
  13. 1.5 4 km NNW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.8 5 km S of Argonia, Kansas
  15. 2.7 6 km NNW of Jefferson, 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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