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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

9 km ESE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma

· 7.8 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kingfisher County 15 kmLogan County 35 kmCanadian County 36 kmOklahoma County 50 kmBlaine County 54 kmGarfield County 59 kmNoble County 80 kmPayne County 81 kmMajor County 83 km
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
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kingfisher County, 15 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2298 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 35.8442, -97.8287. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kingfisher County, OK 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Logan County, OK 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Canadian County, OK 36 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Oklahoma County, OK 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Blaine County, OK 54 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Garfield County, OK 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6 km NNE of Union City, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 3 km ENE of Union City, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km SSW of Marshall, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 7 km NE of Lake Aluma, Oklahoma
  5. 2.1 4 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  6. 3.4 4 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  7. 1.7 1 km S of Okarche, Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 5 km NNE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 3 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 3 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 3 km W of Marshall, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 4 km W of Marshall, Oklahoma
  13. 2.2 4 km W of Marshall, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 4 km W of Marshall, Oklahoma
  15. 3.1 3 km W of Marshall, 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 4.6 on 2018-04-09 — it released about 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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