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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0mb_lg

3 km W of Burr Oak, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jewell County 14 kmWebster County 37 kmSmith County 39 kmNuckolls County 43 kmMitchell County 54 kmRepublic County 59 kmFranklin County 63 kmOsborne County 68 kmThayer County 72 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
15 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Jewell County, 14 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2346 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 15 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 39.8651, -98.3442. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jewell County, KS 14 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Webster County, NE 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Webster County
Smith County, KS 39 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Smith County
Nuckolls County, NE 43 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nuckolls County
Mitchell County, KS 54 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Republic County, KS 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Republic County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 1 km NNW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  2. 2.5 1 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  3. 2.1 0 km N of Glen Elder, Kansas
  4. 2.8 2 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  5. 2.9 2 km NE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  6. 2.8 0 km NW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  7. 2.7 1 km N of Glen Elder, Kansas
  8. 2.7 0 km WSW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  9. 3.2 0 km SE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  10. 2.8 7 km ENE of Cowles, Nebraska
  11. 2.6 7 km N of Jewell, Kansas
  12. 2.5 7 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  13. 2.5 7 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  14. 2.5 11 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  15. 3.5 10 km NNE of Guide Rock, Nebraska

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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