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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma

· 8.3 km deep · released about 24 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 26 kmWoods County 32 kmWoodward County 43 kmAlfalfa County 52 kmDewey County 56 kmBlaine County 71 kmBarber County 87 kmHarper County 87 kmEllis County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Major County, 26 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2454 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 24 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 640,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 450,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 40× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 24 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 36.4433, -98.7898. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 26 km (16 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Major County
Woods County, OK 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Woodward County, OK 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Alfalfa County, OK 52 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Dewey County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Blaine County, OK 71 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Blaine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 10 km NNE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 2.0 2 km WSW of Fairview, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 14 km S of Freedom, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 2 km NNW of Ringwood, Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 10 km S of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 2 km WSW of Fairview, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 21 km W of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 13 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 17 km SSE of Waynoka, 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 57,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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