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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

7 km SE of Harper, Kansas

· 4.0 km deep · released about 32 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 9 kmKingman County 39 kmSumner County 43 kmGrant County 52 kmBarber County 63 kmAlfalfa County 64 kmSedgwick County 68 kmReno County 80 kmPratt County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 9 km WSW
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 32 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 37.2312, -97.9775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 9 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Kingman County, KS 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sumner County, KS 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 52 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Barber County, KS 63 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Barber County
Alfalfa County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 2.6 9 km ESE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  3. 1.9 10 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 2.5 10 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  5. 2.2 8 km NNW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 6 km ESE of Mayfield, Kansas
  7. 2.5 12 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  8. 2.1 8 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  9. 1.6 5 km SSE of Freeport, Kansas
  10. 2.5 10 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  11. 3.1 10 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  12. 1.8 11 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  13. 1.7 4 km NNW of Mayfield, Kansas
  14. 1.9 5 km SSE of Freeport, Kansas
  15. 2.7 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2016-11-25 — it released about 930 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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