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M 2.6mb_lg

6 km S of Burns, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Butler County 29 kmChase County 39 kmMarion County 41 kmHarvey County 49 kmGreenwood County 59 kmSedgwick County 64 kmMorris County 75 kmMcPherson County 78 kmLyon County 78 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Butler County, 29 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2086 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 38.0359, -96.8806. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Butler County, KS 29 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butler County
Chase County, KS 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Chase County
Marion County, KS 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Marion County
Harvey County, KS 49 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harvey County
Greenwood County, KS 59 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Greenwood County
Sedgwick County, KS 64 km (40 mi) NE 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. 2.6 13 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  2. 2.5 15 km WNW of Elmdale, Kansas
  3. 2.3 14 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  4. 2.6 14 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  5. 2.5 15 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  6. 2.3 4 km ENE of Eastborough, Kansas
  7. 2.2 13 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  8. 2.5 12 km SSE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  9. 2.8 14 km SE of Lincolnville, Kansas
  10. 2.2 5 km ESE of Marion, Kansas
  11. 2.0 2 km SSW of Marion, Kansas
  12. 2.1 1 km E of Eastborough, Kansas
  13. 2.0 2 km NNE of Eastborough, Kansas
  14. 2.5 4 km E of Eastborough, Kansas
  15. 2.8 5 km NE of Eastborough, 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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