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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5mb_lg

5 km NE of Argonia, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sumner County 22 kmHarper County 33 kmKingman County 46 kmSedgwick County 48 kmGrant County 57 kmKay County 75 kmReno County 78 kmCowley County 79 kmAlfalfa County 83 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
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Sumner County, 22 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1660 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 37.3018, -97.7261. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sumner County, KS 22 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 33 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Kingman County, KS 46 km (29 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Sedgwick County, KS 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sedgwick County
Grant County, OK 57 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 75 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  2. 1.5 1 km SE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  3. 2.0 Oklahoma
  4. 1.8 10 km SSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  5. 2.0 Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  9. 1.8 0 km ENE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 2 km NW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 1 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 10 km N of Milton, Kansas
  14. 2.4 10 km WNW of Viola, Kansas
  15. 2.6 8 km WNW of Viola, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2021-02-19 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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