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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

9 km W of Fairview, Oklahoma

· 11 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 6 kmBlaine County 47 kmDewey County 51 kmAlfalfa County 55 kmWoods County 56 kmWoodward County 64 kmKingfisher County 69 kmGarfield County 72 kmCuster County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Major County, 6 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2539 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 36.2788, -98.5867. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 6 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Major County
Blaine County, OK 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Dewey County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Alfalfa County, OK 55 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woods County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Woodward County, OK 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Woodward County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 10 km WSW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  2. 2.0 10 km NE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 10 km WSW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  5. 3.6 4 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  6. 3.6 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  7. 2.3 16 km ENE of Chester, Oklahoma
  8. 2.1 12 km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 8 km S of Goltry, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 9 km NNE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 9 km NNE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 6 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 6 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 2.8 7 km NNE of Ames, 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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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