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M 3.1ml

12 km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma

· 5.3 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Blaine County 10 kmDewey County 44 kmMajor County 46 kmCuster County 50 kmKingfisher County 54 kmCanadian County 63 kmWashita County 79 kmCaddo County 82 kmGarfield County 86 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Blaine County, 10 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2529 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 12,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 8,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 35.8970, -98.5318. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Blaine County, OK 10 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Dewey County, OK 44 km (28 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Major County, OK 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Major County
Custer County, OK 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Custer County
Kingfisher County, OK 54 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Canadian County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Canadian County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 16 km ENE of Chester, Oklahoma
  2. 2.1 12 km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 7 km WSW of Thomas, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 15 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 15 km WNW of Longdale, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 11 km SSW of Loyal, Oklahoma
  8. 2.1 14 km W of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  9. 2.1 14 km WSW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 2 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 7 km NNE of Custer City, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 11 km ENE of Greenfield, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 12 km NE of Greenfield, Oklahoma
  14. 2.1 11 km NE of Greenfield, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 6 km NNE of Loyal, 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 4.1 on 2016-01-18 — it released about 33 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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