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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0mb_lg

4 km W of Bogue, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Graham County 12 kmRooks County 36 kmNorton County 49 kmTrego County 50 kmPhillips County 58 kmSheridan County 60 kmEllis County 62 kmDecatur County 77 kmGove County 81 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. 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
5 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Graham County, 12 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 47 minutes ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 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.

Revisions

USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.

What changedFromToWhen
reported intensity3.24.7
felt reports45
reported intensity33.2
felt reports34
reported intensitynot reported3
felt reportsnot reported3

Where

Epicentre 39.3636, -99.7458. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Graham County, KS 12 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Graham County
Rooks County, KS 36 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rooks County
Norton County, KS 49 km (30 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Norton County
Trego County, KS 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Trego County
Phillips County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Phillips County
Sheridan County, KS 60 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sheridan County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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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