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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

13 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas

· 4.8 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 21 kmHarper County 34 kmGrant County 40 kmKay County 60 kmKingman County 62 kmSedgwick County 64 kmAlfalfa County 72 kmCowley County 76 kmGarfield County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 21 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3111 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 37.1343, -97.6868. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 34 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Kingman County, KS 62 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sedgwick County, KS 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick 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. 2.6 8 km NNE of Harper, Kansas
  2. 2.8 4 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 7 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 1.5 7 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  5. 2.0 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 1.5 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 1.6 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  8. 1.7 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  9. 1.7 9 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  10. 1.8 5 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  11. 2.8 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  12. 2.6 1 km NW of Conway Springs, Kansas
  13. 1.7 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  14. 1.9 4 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  15. 2.8 7 km SSW of Conway Springs, 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 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — it released about 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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