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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

10 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas

· 2.2 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 20 kmHarper County 37 kmGrant County 38 kmKay County 57 kmKingman County 65 kmSedgwick County 66 kmAlfalfa County 73 kmCowley County 74 kmGarfield County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 20 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2896 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 5.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 37.1132, -97.6600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 20 km (13 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 37 km (23 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 38 km (24 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 57 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Kingman County, KS 65 km (40 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sedgwick County, KS 66 km (41 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

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

  1. 2.3 10 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  2. 2.3 7 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 1.6 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  4. 3.3 3 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  5. 2.5 Kansas
  6. 1.5 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  7. 2.0 6 km N of Medford, Oklahoma
  8. 2.4 2 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 6 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  10. 2.3 7 km NE of South Haven, Kansas
  11. 2.3 5 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  12. 2.5 3 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  13. 3.1 8 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.7 5 km NW of Caldwell, Kansas
  15. 2.4 4 km NE of South Haven, 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 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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