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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma

· 7.4 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 26 kmNoble County 28 kmLogan County 43 kmKingfisher County 53 kmPayne County 55 kmGrant County 60 kmKay County 67 kmPawnee County 74 kmOklahoma 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garfield County, 26 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2193 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 36.2945, -97.5227. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan County
Kingfisher County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Payne County, OK 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Grant County, OK 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Grant County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 9 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 8 km ESE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 8 km E of Orlando, Oklahoma
  9. 1.8 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  10. 2.3 13 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 13 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 13 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 9 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 10 km NNW of Perry, 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 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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