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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3mb_lg

7 km NE of South Haven, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 21 kmKay County 35 kmCowley County 47 kmGrant County 52 kmHarper County 66 kmSedgwick County 67 kmNoble County 79 kmButler County 88 kmKingman County 88 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 2.3 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Sumner County, 21 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2732 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 37.0904, -97.3354. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 21 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kay County, OK 35 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Cowley County, KS 47 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Grant County, OK 52 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sedgwick County, KS 67 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 Kansas
  2. 1.9 2 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  3. 1.8 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 1.6 3 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas
  5. 2.3 9 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  6. 2.7 10 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  7. 2.6 2 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 2 km SE of Milan, Kansas
  9. 1.8 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  10. 1.9 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 6 km NNW of Nardin, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 7 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 7 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma

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 4.1 on 2017-03-29 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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