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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4mb_lg

3 km WNW of Freeport, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 15 kmSumner County 36 kmKingman County 44 kmGrant County 48 kmSedgwick County 65 kmAlfalfa County 66 kmBarber County 70 kmKay County 80 kmReno County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 15 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2164 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 37.2141, -97.8950. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 15 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sumner County, KS 36 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kingman County, KS 44 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Grant County, OK 48 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sedgwick County, KS 65 km (40 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Alfalfa County, OK 66 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 2 km S of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 7 km NE of Mayfield, Kansas
  3. 2.1 9 km NE of Mayfield, Kansas
  4. 2.4 9 km NE of Mayfield, Kansas
  5. 2.7 7 km NE of Mayfield, Kansas
  6. 2.4 7 km NE of Mayfield, Kansas
  7. 2.1 1 km SE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  8. 2.1 Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 6.1 km SSE of Jefferson, OK
  10. 2.0 4 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 6 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  12. 1.7 9 km NNW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 0 km NE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  15. 1.6 11 km SW of Hunnewell, 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 4.0 on 2016-11-25 — 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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