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M 1.6ml

5 km S of Harper, Kansas

· 5.5 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 6 kmKingman County 37 kmSumner County 48 kmGrant County 54 kmBarber County 58 kmAlfalfa County 62 kmSedgwick County 71 kmPratt County 77 kmReno County 79 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 6 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3351 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 37.2342, -98.0343. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 6 km (4 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Kingman County, KS 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sumner County, KS 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 54 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Barber County, KS 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Barber County
Alfalfa County, OK 62 km (38 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

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

  1. 1.6 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 1.7 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 1.6 5 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 2.1 11 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  5. 1.6 7 km SSE of Argonia, Kansas
  6. 1.6 10 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 1.9 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  8. 1.6 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  9. 1.7 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  10. 1.9 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  11. 2.2 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  12. 3.7 10 km N of Caldwell, Kansas
  13. 1.9 3 km NNW of Freeport, Kansas
  14. 1.7 7 km SSE of Argonia, Kansas
  15. 1.8 2 km E of Anthony, 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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