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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4mb_lg

11 km SSE of Hill City, Kansas

· 7.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Graham County 12 kmTrego County 38 kmRooks County 43 kmSheridan County 55 kmEllis County 57 kmNorton County 58 kmGove County 70 kmPhillips County 71 kmDecatur County 80 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 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Graham County, 12 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 380 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 39.2627, -99.8092. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Graham County, KS 12 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Graham County
Trego County, KS 38 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Trego County
Rooks County, KS 43 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rooks County
Sheridan County, KS 55 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sheridan County
Ellis County, KS 57 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Norton County, KS 58 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Norton 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. 2.4 12 km NE of Damar, Kansas
  2. 2.8 10 km SSW of Stockton, Kansas
  3. 2.5 1 km NE of Zurich, Kansas
  4. 2.5 3 km NE of Bogue, Kansas
  5. 2.8 16 km S of Hill City, Kansas
  6. 3.0 2 km SW of Zurich, Kansas
  7. 2.7 2 km E of Hill City, Kansas
  8. 2.6 6 km SE of Hill City, Kansas
  9. 2.7 11 km NW of Stockton, Kansas
  10. 2.1 9 km SW of Bogue, Kansas
  11. 2.7 17 km NNE of Collyer, Kansas
  12. 2.5 7 km S of Hill City, 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 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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