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M 2.0ml

25 km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma

· 6.3 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Comanche County 27 kmHarper County 30 kmClark County 49 kmWoods County 53 kmWoodward County 60 kmKiowa County 67 kmBarber County 69 kmEllis County 88 kmMeade County 92 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Comanche County, 27 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2484 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 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 36.9600, -99.3880. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Comanche County, KS 27 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Comanche County
Harper County, OK 30 km (19 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Clark County, KS 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Woods County, OK 53 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Woods County
Woodward County, OK 60 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Kiowa County, KS 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kiowa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 23 km WSW of Freedom, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 14 km S of Freedom, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 17 km ESE of Buffalo, Oklahoma
  4. 2.2 26 km NE of Buffalo, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 12 km N of Rosston, Oklahoma
  6. 2.3 11 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 12 km N of Rosston, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 11 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 10 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  10. 2.5 11 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  11. 2.3 13 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  12. 2.4 13 km N of Rosston, Oklahoma
  13. 2.3 12 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 12 km NNE of Rosston, Oklahoma
  15. 2.4 10 km NNE of Rosston, 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.

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