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M 3.4mb_lg

7 km ESE of Mankato, Kansas

· 16 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jewell County 8 kmMitchell County 41 kmRepublic County 42 kmNuckolls County 47 kmCloud County 52 kmSmith County 56 kmWebster County 56 kmThayer County 65 kmOsborne County 71 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
17 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Jewell County, 8 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3335 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 17 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× more

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 39.7556, -98.1370. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jewell County, KS 8 km (5 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Mitchell County, KS 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Republic County, KS 42 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Republic County
Nuckolls County, NE 47 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Nuckolls County
Cloud County, KS 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cloud County
Smith County, KS 56 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Smith 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. 2.5 7 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  2. 2.6 7 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  3. 2.5 9 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  4. 2.9 11 km N of Guide Rock, Nebraska
  5. 2.5 11 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  6. 2.9 11 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  7. 2.9 8 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  8. 2.7 5 km WNW of Cawker City, Kansas
  9. 2.6 6 km WNW of Cawker City, Kansas
  10. 3.4 8 km WSW of Superior, Nebraska
  11. 3.8 8 km WSW of Superior, Nebraska
  12. 2.5 13 km N of Cawker City, Kansas
  13. 2.5 11 km WNW of Jewell, Kansas
  14. 2.8 12 km SW of Mankato, Kansas
  15. 2.5 15 km NNW of Cawker 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.

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