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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

2 km WSW of Fairview, Oklahoma

· 6.7 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 7 kmBlaine County 43 kmDewey County 55 kmAlfalfa County 55 kmWoods County 61 kmKingfisher County 62 kmGarfield County 66 kmWoodward County 71 kmCuster County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Major County, 7 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2383 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 33 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 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 36.2575, -98.5095. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 7 km (4 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Major County
Blaine County, OK 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Dewey County, OK 55 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Alfalfa County, OK 55 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woods County, OK 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Kingfisher County, OK 62 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km WSW of Ringwood, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 9 km WSW of Ringwood, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 7 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 8 km SSE of Meno, Oklahoma
  5. 3.0 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 9 km WSW of Isabella, Oklahoma
  7. 3.2 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 2.3 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 4 km SE of Meno, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  13. 2.2 6 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  14. 2.1 9 km WSW of Isabella, Oklahoma
  15. 1.7 17 km SE 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 40,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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