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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

6 km NNE of Wakita, Oklahoma

· 4.3 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 19 kmHarper County 32 kmAlfalfa County 45 kmSumner County 49 kmGarfield County 63 kmKay County 68 kmKingman County 72 kmBarber County 77 kmNoble County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 19 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3022 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 36.9366, -97.8940. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 19 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Alfalfa County, OK 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 49 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 63 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Kay County, OK 68 km (42 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  2. 1.5 4 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 2.3 1 km N of Anthony, Kansas
  4. 2.6 11 km SSW of Mayfield, Kansas
  5. 2.6 0 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 1 km S of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 2.4 7 km NE of Harper, Kansas
  8. 2.6 8 km NNE of Harper, Kansas
  9. 2.8 4 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 7 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  11. 1.5 7 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  12. 2.0 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 1.5 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.6 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  15. 1.7 7 km N of Argonia, 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 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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