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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

12 km SSE of Slick, Oklahoma

· 26 km deep · released about 11 lb 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Okmulgee County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2314 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 35.6678, -96.2175. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Okmulgee County, OK 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Okmulgee County
Okfuskee County, OK 24 km (15 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Creek County, OK 30 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Creek County
Tulsa County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tulsa County
McIntosh County, OK 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near McIntosh County
Lincoln County, OK 60 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lincoln 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. 2.2 10 km WSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 5 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  3. 1.5 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 5 km ENE of Drumright, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 4 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 5 km ESE of Drumright, Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 3 km NE of Stroud, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 5 km N of IXL, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 3 km ENE of Drumright, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 3 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 5 km ENE of Drumright, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 5 km E of Drumright, 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 4.2 on 2017-07-14 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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