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M 1.6ml

7 km WSW of Wellington, Kansas

· 5.8 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 4 kmSedgwick County 48 kmCowley County 54 kmHarper County 55 kmKay County 55 kmGrant County 59 kmKingman County 70 kmButler County 80 kmHarvey County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 4 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3029 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 37.2473, -97.4522. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 4 km (2 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Sedgwick County, KS 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Cowley County, KS 54 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Harper County, KS 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Kay County, OK 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Grant County, OK 59 km (37 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant 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. 2.0 6 km SE of Harper, Kansas
  2. 2.4 6 km SSW of Norwich, Kansas
  3. 3.4 9 km NNE of Harper, Kansas
  4. 1.7 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  5. 2.4 3 km NW of Freeport, Kansas
  6. 1.9 3 km NW of Freeport, Kansas
  7. 1.5 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  8. 2.5 7 km NE of Danville, Kansas
  9. 2.8 3 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  10. 2.3 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  11. 1.6 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  12. 1.6 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  13. 2.6 10 km NNW of Danville, Kansas
  14. 1.7 7 km NNE of Danville, Kansas
  15. 2.0 7 km SE 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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