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M 3.3mb_lg

8 km NNE of Hope, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Dickinson County 15 kmMorris County 35 kmGeary County 36 kmMarion County 45 kmSaline County 52 kmChase County 65 kmRiley County 65 kmClay County 66 kmMcPherson County 66 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 3.3 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
12 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Dickinson County, 15 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2303 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 12 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 38.7616, -97.0475. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dickinson County, KS 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Dickinson County
Morris County, KS 35 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Morris County
Geary County, KS 36 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Geary County
Marion County, KS 45 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marion County
Saline County, KS 52 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Saline County
Chase County, KS 65 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Chase 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 5 km WSW of Gypsum, Kansas
  2. 2.4 6 km SW of Woodbine, Kansas
  3. 2.5 5 km WSW of Gypsum, Kansas
  4. 3.1 5 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  5. 2.7 Kansas
  6. 1.8 6 km E of Assaria, Kansas
  7. 3.1 4 km ESE of Assaria, Kansas
  8. 2.5 8 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  9. 2.4 8 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  10. 2.8 4 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  11. 2.5 8 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  12. 2.5 6 km WSW of Gypsum, Kansas
  13. 3.7 7 km WSW of Gypsum, Kansas
  14. 3.7 6 km SW of Gypsum, Kansas
  15. 2.0 2 km SSW of Marion, 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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