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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

7 km WNW of Jones, Oklahoma

· 5.7 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oklahoma County 6 kmLogan County 36 kmCleveland County 44 kmLincoln County 45 kmCanadian County 56 kmPottawatomie County 57 kmPayne County 64 kmKingfisher County 65 kmMcClain County 65 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oklahoma County, 6 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2560 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 13 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 840,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 75× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 35.5973, -97.3660. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oklahoma County, OK 6 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Logan County, OK 36 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Cleveland County, OK 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Lincoln County, OK 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Canadian County, OK 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Pottawatomie County, OK 57 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km WNW of Cedar Valley, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 7 km ENE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 2 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 4 km W of Langston, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 3 km SE of Carney, OK
  6. 1.7 2 km WNW of Langston, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 10 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 2 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 7 km NNE of Lake Aluma, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 7 km S of Cedar Valley, Oklahoma
  11. 2.1 7 km S of Cedar Valley, Oklahoma
  12. 2.1 9 km WSW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 9 km WSW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 2.1 8 km SE of Luther, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 1 km NE of Guthrie, 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 2016-04-07 — it released about 4,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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