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M 3.1mb_lg

11 km W of Webber, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jewell County 18 kmNuckolls County 29 kmWebster County 39 kmRepublic County 46 kmSmith County 55 kmThayer County 56 kmMitchell County 60 kmClay County 67 kmCloud County 67 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 3.1 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Jewell County, 18 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1532 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 39.9309, -98.1724. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jewell County, KS 18 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Nuckolls County, NE 29 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Nuckolls County
Webster County, NE 39 km (24 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Webster County
Republic County, KS 46 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Republic County
Smith County, KS 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Smith County
Thayer County, NE 56 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Thayer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 7 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  2. 2.8 4 km ESE of Cowles, Nebraska
  3. 2.5 6 km ESE of Cowles, Nebraska
  4. 2.4 4 km ENE of Cowles, Nebraska
  5. 2.6 8 km N of Guide Rock, Nebraska
  6. 2.6 9 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  7. 2.3 3 km S of Cowles, Nebraska
  8. 4.1 4 km E of Cowles, Nebraska
  9. 2.5 4 km NNE of Jewell, Kansas
  10. 2.6 5 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  11. 2.5 1 km NNW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  12. 2.5 1 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  13. 2.1 0 km N of Glen Elder, Kansas
  14. 2.8 2 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  15. 2.9 2 km NE of Glen Elder, 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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