Earthquake Sunday shakes six Nebraska counties

GUIDE ROCK - The US Geological Survey reports an earthquake in south central Nebraska Sunday afternoon.

The earthquake hit near Guide Rock south of Hastings near the Kansas border at 1:30 p.m. It was a 4.2 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 7.1 kilometers

The USGS lists the shaking at the Nebraska earthquake as light to moderate in six counties.

A seismic hazard map lists Nebraska in its lowest risk category for earthquakes. In 2018, a  swarm of earthquakes was recorded in Nebraska in Custer County with similar clusters in Kansas in 2017.

The Guide Rock quake occurred in the Central Nebraska Basin, which was not studied as an earthquake threat in 2018. The report did not show any earthquakes Webster and Nuckolls counties since 1867, but there was an earthquake in Clay County in the 1980s. However, the earthquake swarm in 2017 was south of the border in Kansas.

Recent seismic activity in the region include an earthquake in Bennington, Kan., on Dec. 8 and Dec. 7.

A 3.0 magnitude quake was reported in Wakonda, SD., on Dec. 10.