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M 4.3mwr

6 km SSW of Gypsum, Kansas

· 3.0 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Saline County 23 kmMcPherson County 33 kmDickinson County 35 kmMarion County 44 kmOttawa County 57 kmEllsworth County 66 kmHarvey County 67 kmMorris County 69 kmGeary County 71 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mwr)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
812 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Saline County, 23 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 213 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 812 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

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 38.6529, -97.4477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Saline County, KS 23 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Saline County
McPherson County, KS 33 km (21 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near McPherson County
Dickinson County, KS 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dickinson County
Marion County, KS 44 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Ottawa County, KS 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ottawa County
Ellsworth County, KS 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ellsworth County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 4 km W of Bennington, Kansas
  2. 3.4 6 km NNE of Bennington, Kansas
  3. 3.1 7 km E of Assaria, Kansas
  4. 3.4 3 km NNW of Bennington, Kansas
  5. 4.0 4 km NW of Bennington, Kansas
  6. 2.9 3 km N of Bennington, Kansas
  7. 2.6 6 km E of Assaria, Kansas
  8. 2.3 11 km N of Hope, Kansas
  9. 2.8 7 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  10. 2.5 Kansas
  11. 2.8 7 km SW of Woodbine, Kansas
  12. 2.5 6 km E of New Cambria, Kansas
  13. 3.0 8 km NNW of Roxbury, Kansas
  14. 2.4 5 km NNE of Hope, Kansas
  15. 2.5 5 km W of Woodbine, 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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