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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mb_lg

10 km NW of Woodston, Kansas

· 13 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Rooks County 21 kmPhillips County 33 kmOsborne County 40 kmSmith County 46 kmGraham County 62 kmEllis County 67 kmNorton County 68 kmRussell County 75 kmHarlan County 77 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 3.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Rooks County, 21 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 388 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 39.5084, -99.1903. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rooks County, KS 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Rooks County
Phillips County, KS 33 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Phillips County
Osborne County, KS 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Osborne County
Smith County, KS 46 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Smith County
Graham County, KS 62 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Graham County
Ellis County, KS 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ellis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 9 km SW of Natoma, Kansas
  2. 2.4 12 km NE of Damar, Kansas
  3. 2.9 5 km SW of Kirwin, Kansas
  4. 2.8 10 km SSW of Stockton, Kansas
  5. 2.8 8 km NNW of Stockton, Kansas
  6. 3.3 7 km NNW of Stockton, Kansas
  7. 2.5 1 km NE of Zurich, Kansas
  8. 2.5 11 km NNE of Stockton, Kansas
  9. 2.6 14 km WSW of Natoma, Kansas
  10. 2.5 3 km NE of Bogue, Kansas
  11. 3.0 2 km SW of Zurich, Kansas
  12. 2.7 11 km NW of Stockton, 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 4.6 on 2019-06-22 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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