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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

7 km N of Jewell, Kansas

· 12 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jewell County 8 kmMitchell County 39 kmRepublic County 44 kmNuckolls County 50 kmCloud County 51 kmSmith County 55 kmWebster County 58 kmThayer County 67 kmOsborne County 69 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jewell County, 8 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 586 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 39.7374, -98.1467. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jewell County, KS 8 km (5 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Mitchell County, KS 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Republic County, KS 44 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Republic County
Nuckolls County, NE 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Nuckolls County
Cloud County, KS 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cloud County
Smith County, KS 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Smith County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

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