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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

7 km S of Anthony, Kansas

· 6.4 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 12 kmGrant County 40 kmAlfalfa County 47 kmSumner County 51 kmKingman County 53 kmBarber County 59 kmGarfield County 82 kmWoods County 83 kmSedgwick County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 12 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3496 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 6.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 37.0855, -98.0407. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 12 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 47 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 51 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kingman County, KS 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Barber County, KS 59 km (37 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

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

  1. 1.8 3 km SE of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 3.2 7 km W of Wakita, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 7 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 1.5 7 km SE of Bluff City, Kansas
  5. 1.8 2 km E of Anthony, Kansas
  6. 1.9 7 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 1.5 7 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 2.5 7 km W of Wakita, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 5 km E of Manchester, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 8 km N of Manchester, Oklahoma
  11. 3.0 1 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 13 km SSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 4 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  14. 1.9 9 km WNW of South Haven, Kansas
  15. 3.2 0 km ENE of Renfrow, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2016-11-25 — it released about 4,600 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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