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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5mb_lg

15 km NNW of Cawker City, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jewell County 28 kmSmith County 29 kmMitchell County 37 kmOsborne County 40 kmWebster County 60 kmLincoln County 70 kmNuckolls County 71 kmFranklin County 72 kmPhillips County 74 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 2.5 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jewell County, 28 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1694 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 39.6388, -98.5016. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jewell County, KS 28 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Smith County, KS 29 km (18 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Smith County
Mitchell County, KS 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Osborne County, KS 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Osborne County
Webster County, NE 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Webster County
Lincoln County, KS 70 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

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