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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2ml

6 km WNW of Hitchita, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Okmulgee County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2625 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 35.5503, -95.8088. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Okmulgee County, OK 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Okmulgee County
McIntosh County, OK 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near McIntosh County
Muskogee County, OK 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Muskogee County
Okfuskee County, OK 48 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Wagoner County, OK 53 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Wagoner County
Tulsa County, OK 65 km (40 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tulsa County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 5 km S of Dustin, 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.

On USGS

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