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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0mb_lg

4 km E of Catharine, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ellis County 13 kmRussell County 34 kmRush County 47 kmRooks County 49 kmOsborne County 58 kmBarton County 60 kmTrego County 61 kmGraham County 78 kmNess County 82 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 3.0 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Ellis County, 13 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2525 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 38.9266, -99.1635. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ellis County, KS 13 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Russell County, KS 34 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Russell County
Rush County, KS 47 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Rush County
Rooks County, KS 49 km (30 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Rooks County
Osborne County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osborne County
Barton County, KS 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Barton County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 9 km SW of Natoma, Kansas
  2. 2.9 7 km N of Hays, Kansas
  3. 2.8 10 km SSW of Stockton, Kansas
  4. 2.5 1 km NE of Zurich, Kansas
  5. 2.6 14 km WSW of Natoma, Kansas
  6. 3.0 4 km SE of Paradise, Kansas
  7. 3.0 2 km SW of Zurich, Kansas
  8. 3.0 6 km SW of Luray, Kansas
  9. 2.6 1 km SE of Palco, Kansas
  10. 2.6 5 km E of Palco, Kansas
  11. 2.5 5 km W of Zurich, Kansas
  12. 2.6 15 km SE of Plainville, Kansas
  13. 2.4 16 km SSE of Plainville, Kansas
  14. 2.7 6 km NNW of Zurich, Kansas
  15. 2.9 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 4.6 on 2019-06-22 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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