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M 1.7ml

12 km NE of Wakita, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 18 kmHarper County 35 kmSumner County 42 kmAlfalfa County 52 kmKay County 61 kmGarfield County 64 kmKingman County 73 kmNoble County 81 kmBarber County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 18 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3798 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 9.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 36.9508, -97.8053. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 18 km (11 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 35 km (22 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Sumner County, KS 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Alfalfa County, OK 52 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Kay County, OK 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Garfield County, OK 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 10 km NW of South Haven, Kansas
  2. 1.5 4 km ESE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 6 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  4. 2.6 8 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 12 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  6. 2.5 5 km SW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  7. 3.0 5 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 4 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  9. 1.8 1 km SW of Mayfield, Kansas
  10. 1.6 13 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  11. 2.7 10 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 4 km WSW of Kremlin, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.6 4 km ESE of Anthony, Kansas
  15. 1.7 4 km ESE of Anthony, 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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