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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

6 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 46 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alfalfa County 8 kmGrant County 46 kmHarper County 48 kmWoods County 50 kmMajor County 58 kmBarber County 58 kmGarfield County 66 kmKingman County 85 kmSumner County 87 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alfalfa County, 8 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2671 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 46 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 21× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 46 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 36.7980, -98.3085. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alfalfa County, OK 8 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Grant County, OK 46 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harper County
Woods County, OK 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Woods County
Major County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Major County
Barber County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 12 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 5 km SSE of Dacoma, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km SE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 9 km W of Aline, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 5 km WNW of Lambert, Oklahoma
  7. 2.9 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 8 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  9. 2.0 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  10. 2.0 7 km WNW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  11. 2.1 11 km NE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  12. 2.0 11 km ENE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 11 km ENE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 8 km S of Dacoma, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 8 km S of Dacoma, Oklahoma

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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 30,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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