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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6ml

5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma

· 7.1 km deep · released about 3.7 tons of TNT

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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 3.6 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
29 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lincoln County, 23 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2398 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 29 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.7× 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 35.7990, -96.6547. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 23 km (14 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Creek County, OK 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Payne County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Okfuskee County, OK 47 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Pawnee County, OK 57 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Okmulgee County, OK 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Okmulgee 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. 1.7 4 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  2. 2.0 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 4 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  4. 1.8 Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  10. 1.9 5 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 5 km NNE of Stroud, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 8 km SE of Luther, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 2.2 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  15. 1.7 12 km SSE of Slick, 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 5.0 on 2016-11-07 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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