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M 1.7ml

7 km E of Bluff City, Kansas

· 5.5 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 27 kmSumner County 32 kmGrant County 32 kmAlfalfa County 61 kmKingman County 61 kmKay County 65 kmSedgwick County 73 kmGarfield County 78 kmBarber County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 27 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3650 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.0783, -97.7917. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sumner County, KS 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 32 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Kingman County, KS 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Kay County, OK 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay 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. 2.7 3 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 2 km NW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 8 km E of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 1.8 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  5. 2.2 5 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  6. 1.6 5 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 1.7 4 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 2.5 6 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 7 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  10. 1.8 4 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  11. 2.8 5 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 2 km E of Anthony, Kansas
  13. 2.5 8 km ESE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 4 km ENE of Harper, Kansas
  15. 1.5 4 km ENE of Harper, 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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