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M 2.4mb_lg

12 km W of Belle Plaine, Kansas

· 15 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 19 kmSedgwick County 32 kmCowley County 55 kmHarper County 61 kmKingman County 66 kmButler County 66 kmKay County 69 kmHarvey County 73 kmGrant County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 19 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2773 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 37.3964, -97.4236. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 19 km (12 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Sedgwick County, KS 32 km (20 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Cowley County, KS 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Harper County, KS 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Kingman County, KS 66 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Butler County, KS 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Butler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 9 km WNW of Viola, Kansas
  2. 1.9 9 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 1.7 9 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 1.8 9 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas
  5. 1.8 6 km ENE of Harper, Kansas
  6. 1.9 Kansas
  7. 1.8 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  8. 1.6 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  9. 2.3 9 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  10. 2.7 10 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  11. 1.9 2 km SE of Milan, Kansas
  12. 1.5 4 km WNW of Danville, Kansas
  13. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.6 4 km WNW of Danville, Kansas
  15. 2.2 5 km W of South Haven, 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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