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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

13 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma

· 7.3 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kingfisher County 18 kmBlaine County 32 kmCanadian County 34 kmLogan County 57 kmGarfield County 65 kmMajor County 67 kmOklahoma County 69 kmCaddo County 80 kmDewey County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kingfisher County, 18 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2616 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 43 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 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 35.8418, -98.0815. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kingfisher County, OK 18 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Blaine County, OK 32 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Canadian County, OK 34 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Logan County, OK 57 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Logan County
Garfield County, OK 65 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Major County, OK 67 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Major 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. 1.6 10 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  2. 2.2 7 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 15 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 10 km ENE of Greenfield, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 15 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 15 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 15 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 15 km E of Watonga, Oklahoma
  11. 3.4 15 km NW of Okarche, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 15 km NW of Okarche, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 14 km WSW 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 2016-03-29 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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