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M 3.7ml

7 km S of Manchester, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 4.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 26 kmHarper County 29 kmAlfalfa County 35 kmSumner County 58 kmGarfield County 65 kmBarber County 67 kmKingman County 70 kmWoods County 78 kmKay County 79 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 3.7 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
18 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Grant County, 26 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2451 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 18 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 35,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 4.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 10× 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 36.9295, -98.0247. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 26 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Harper County
Alfalfa County, OK 35 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 65 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Barber County, KS 67 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 1 km SW of Anthony, Kansas
  2. 2.1 2 km NW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 7 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 1.9 3 km ENE of Jet, Oklahoma
  5. 2.3 9 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  6. 2.6 9 km SW of Danville, Kansas
  7. 3.5 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 1.8 6 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 4 km SSW of Goltry, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 4 km SSW of Goltry, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 8 km E of Medford, Oklahoma
  13. 1.8 8 km SSW of Manchester, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 10 km ESE of Jefferson, 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 4.4 on 2019-05-17 — it released about 12 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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