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M 3.4ml

8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas

· 5.4 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 28 kmGrant County 34 kmKay County 37 kmHarper County 55 kmCowley County 65 kmNoble County 71 kmGarfield County 72 kmSedgwick County 77 kmAlfalfa County 79 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 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Sumner County, 28 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2922 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 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 36.9859, -97.4955. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 28 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 34 km (21 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Harper County, KS 55 km (34 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Cowley County, KS 65 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Noble County, OK 71 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 4 km NE of Danville, Kansas
  2. 2.4 3 km NW of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 1.9 3 km NW of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 2.5 7 km NE of Danville, Kansas
  5. 2.8 3 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  6. 1.9 3 km NE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  8. 1.6 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  9. 1.9 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  10. 1.5 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  11. 1.8 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  12. 2.0 4 km E of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 2.5 5 km E of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 2.0 5 km E of Bluff City, Kansas
  15. 1.8 2 km SSE 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 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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