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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

6 km E of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma

· 5.9 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 19 kmAlfalfa County 36 kmGarfield County 52 kmWoods County 57 kmBlaine County 59 kmKingfisher County 64 kmGrant County 67 kmDewey County 75 kmWoodward County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Major County, 19 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2288 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 40 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 36.4035, -98.3662. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 19 km (12 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Major County
Alfalfa County, OK 36 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Garfield County, OK 52 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Woods County, OK 57 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Blaine County, OK 59 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Kingfisher County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km NW of Ames, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 0 km N of Lambert, Oklahoma
  4. 2.1 4 km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 5 km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 4 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 9 km WSW of Ringwood, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 9 km ESE of Ames, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 7 km W of Jet, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 5 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 3 km SE of Meno, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 5 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  13. 3.0 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 6 km NNE of Loyal, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 2 km S of Ames, 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 34,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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