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M 3.4mb_lg

7 km S of Cheney, Kansas

· 4.7 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sedgwick County 30 kmKingman County 33 kmSumner County 43 kmHarper County 49 kmReno County 51 kmHarvey County 62 kmButler County 85 kmGrant County 86 kmPratt County 86 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
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
96 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Sedgwick County, 30 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2382 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 96 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 37.5587, -97.7708. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sedgwick County, KS 30 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Kingman County, KS 33 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sumner County, KS 43 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 49 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Reno County, KS 51 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Reno County
Harvey County, KS 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harvey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 5 km E of Harper, Kansas
  2. 2.8 5 km E of Harper, Kansas
  3. 1.5 5 km E of Harper, Kansas
  4. 1.7 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  5. 1.6 2 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  6. 2.5 10 km S of Spivey, Kansas
  7. 2.8 10 km S of Spivey, Kansas
  8. 3.2 9 km S of Spivey, Kansas
  9. 1.8 7 km N of Argonia, Kansas
  10. 1.7 5 km E of Harper, Kansas
  11. 2.1 2 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  12. 2.7 2 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  13. 2.6 5 km ESE of Harper, Kansas
  14. 1.7 11 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  15. 2.3 8 km SE of Zenda, 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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