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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

8 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma

· 7.3 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 14 kmPayne County 30 kmPawnee County 36 kmKay County 54 kmLogan County 56 kmGarfield County 62 kmOsage County 70 kmLincoln County 73 kmGrant County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Noble County, 14 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2431 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 36.3340, -97.0967. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 14 km (9 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 30 km (19 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 36 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Kay County, OK 54 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kay County
Logan County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Garfield County, OK 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 9 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  4. 2.0 4 km NNW of Covington, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 0 km ENE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 0 km E of Coyle, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 3 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 0 km W of Coyle, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 0 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  11. 2.4 0 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 2 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 2.2 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  15. 1.7 5 km NNE of Stillwater, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 1,700,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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