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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

7 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas

· 11 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 18 kmGrant County 39 kmKay County 46 kmHarper County 48 kmCowley County 65 kmSedgwick County 68 kmKingman County 75 kmAlfalfa County 79 kmGarfield County 81 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 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sumner County, 18 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2719 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 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 37.0769, -97.5446. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 18 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 39 km (24 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 46 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Harper County, KS 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Cowley County, KS 65 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Sedgwick County, KS 68 km (42 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

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

  1. 2.5 7 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  3. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 2.4 2 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 2.1 5 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 1.6 4 km WNW of Danville, Kansas
  9. 1.7 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  10. 3.2 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 2 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  12. 1.8 2 km WSW of Anthony, Kansas
  13. 2.2 5 km W of South Haven, Kansas
  14. 2.0 0 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km ENE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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