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M 3.5mwr

10 km NNE of Guide Rock, Nebraska

· 5.0 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Webster County 16 kmNuckolls County 22 kmAdams County 43 kmJewell County 44 kmClay County 45 kmFranklin County 56 kmSmith County 59 kmThayer County 60 kmKearney County 66 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (mwr)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
28 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Webster County, 16 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 952 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 28 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 40.1666, -98.3057. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Webster County, NE 16 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Webster County
Nuckolls County, NE 22 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Nuckolls County
Adams County, NE 43 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Adams County
Jewell County, KS 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Clay County, NE 45 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Clay County
Franklin County, NE 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Franklin County

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

Aftershocks so far

13 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. 2.6 5 km WSW of Formoso, 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 11 km E of Cowles, 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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