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M 2.6ml

2 km WSW of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 280 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grady County 25 kmMcClain County 37 kmCleveland County 40 kmCanadian County 41 kmOklahoma County 49 kmCaddo County 57 kmGarvin County 70 kmPottawatomie County 73 kmLogan County 82 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grady County, 25 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2578 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 280 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 53,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 38,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 280 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 35.2235, -97.7628. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grady County, OK 25 km (16 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grady County
McClain County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near McClain County
Cleveland County, OK 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Canadian County, OK 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Oklahoma County, OK 49 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Caddo County, OK 57 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Caddo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 6 km NE of Union City, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 6 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  4. 2.0 9 km ESE of Amber, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 7 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 7 km NE of Union City, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 Oklahoma
  8. 2.0 6 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  9. 1.8 6 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 7 km NE of Union City, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 9 km NE of Union City, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 6 km N of Union City, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 5 km NNW of Union City, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 7 km NNW of Union City, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 4 km E of Blanchard, 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.

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