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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

4 km SSW of Renfrow, Oklahoma

· 2.6 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 15 kmSumner County 42 kmKay County 48 kmHarper County 49 kmGarfield County 57 kmAlfalfa County 61 kmNoble County 68 kmCowley County 84 kmKingman County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 15 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2505 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 36.8862, -97.6722. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 15 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kay County, OK 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County
Harper County, KS 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Garfield County, OK 57 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Alfalfa County, OK 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  6. 2.3 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 6 km S of Argonia, Kansas
  8. 1.7 3 km N of Medford, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 5 km WNW of Wellington, Kansas
  11. 1.5 1 km SW of Anthony, Kansas
  12. 2.1 2 km NW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  13. 2.3 7 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.9 3 km ENE of Jet, Oklahoma
  15. 2.3 9 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas

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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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