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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

9 km N of El Reno, Oklahoma

· 10 km deep · released about 47 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Canadian County 8 kmKingfisher County 37 kmOklahoma County 50 kmBlaine County 52 kmLogan County 56 kmCaddo County 63 kmGrady County 66 kmCleveland County 73 kmMcClain County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Canadian County, 8 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2634 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 47 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 5.8 320,000× 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 20× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 47 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 35.6165, -97.9532. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Canadian County, OK 8 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Kingfisher County, OK 37 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Oklahoma County, OK 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Blaine County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Logan County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Caddo County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caddo 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. 2.3 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  3. 2.4 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  5. 2.0 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 13 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  8. 2.3 12 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 13 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  11. 2.2 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 13 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 13 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 12 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 12 km W of Kingfisher, 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 4.2 on 2016-01-01 — it released about 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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