DICKINSON COUNTY — A small earthquake shook central Kansas Thursday afternoon. Just after 4:30p.m., a quake measuring a magnitude 3.6 rattled portions of rural Dickinson County three miles northwest ...

Fernando Salazar File photo Earthquakes in Kansas have decreased since the Kansas Corporation Commission ordered oil companies in two southern counties to reduce the amount of saltwater they ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, it occurred at 4:33 p.m. CT, about 3.1 miles northwest of Herington. The quake measured 3.6 in magnitude and had a depth of 5.8 miles.

The epicenter is near the city of Conway Springs, officials said. Several earthquakes occurred in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the past two days, including the 4.8 magnitude earthquake ...

Jan. 17—While Kansas is more known for tornados than seismic activity , the area has seen a spike in earthquake numbers in the last decade. Those numbers are declining, however. Part one of this ...

DICKINSON COUNTY (KSNT) – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports that an earthquake was detected Thursday in central Kansas. The USGS issued a report stating that a 3.6-magnitude earthquake ...

Miller said the actual drilling associated with fracking to extract oil or gas, has been proven to lead to earthquakes in other areas, including Oklahoma. But not Kansas. ”Fracking is not causin ...

An earthquake initially measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled central Kansas early Wednesday morning.According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake was centered just southeast of ...

The Kansas Geological Society is investigating whether a recent earthquake in southern Kansas might have been caused by oil production in the area. But KGS interim director Rex Buchanan says it ...

The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake shook southern Kansas. The earthquake happened at 3:46 a.m. Sunday and measured 4.0 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was reported eight miles ...

In order to predict the future quakes, researchers looked at past earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas, states where there had been an increase in seismic activity due to a rise in injection wells ...

He says it’s unlikely Kansas City will ever feel a big size tremor. "It's about every 400 years or so that they have a great earthquake of the magnitude that we had in 1811 and 1812," said Sprague.