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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma

· 7.5 km deep · released about 32 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kay County 26 kmGrant County 34 kmSumner County 40 kmNoble County 58 kmGarfield County 64 kmCowley County 66 kmHarper County 66 kmAlfalfa County 82 kmSedgwick County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kay County, 26 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2677 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 32 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 36.8805, -97.4275. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kay County, OK 26 km (16 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Grant County, OK 34 km (21 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Noble County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Garfield County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Cowley County, KS 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cowley County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.4 8 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 9 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 2.7 6 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  7. 2.3 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 8 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  10. 2.3 6 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  11. 3.1 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 Kansas
  13. 1.9 2 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 2.3 9 km SSE of Milan, Kansas
  15. 2.7 10 km SSE of Milan, 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 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — it released about 2,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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