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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas

· 4.8 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 11 kmGrant County 40 kmSumner County 47 kmAlfalfa County 51 kmKingman County 52 kmBarber County 62 kmSedgwick County 80 kmKay County 82 kmGarfield County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 11 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2768 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 7.8 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 1,400,000× 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 7.8 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 37.1022, -97.9978. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 11 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 47 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Alfalfa County, OK 51 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Kingman County, KS 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Barber County, KS 62 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 2.2 6 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 2.4 2 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 2.1 5 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 1.6 4 km WNW of Danville, Kansas
  9. 1.6 2 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  10. 1.8 2 km WSW of Anthony, Kansas
  11. 2.2 5 km W of South Haven, Kansas
  12. 1.6 11 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  13. 2.0 0 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  15. 1.8 9 km W of Bluff City, 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 4.4 on 2018-06-09 — 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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