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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

6.1 km N of Cherokee, OK

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alfalfa County 4 kmWoods County 46 kmMajor County 46 kmGrant County 51 kmHarper County 60 kmGarfield County 61 kmBarber County 65 kmWoodward County 88 kmKingfisher County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alfalfa County, 4 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2141 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 36.7002, -98.3472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alfalfa County, OK 4 km (2 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woods County, OK 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Woods County
Major County, OK 46 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Major County
Grant County, OK 51 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 60 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harper County
Garfield County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 1 km NNW of Lambert, Oklahoma
  4. 2.3 1 km NNW of Lambert, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 6 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  8. 2.4 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 5 km NNE of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 3 km SE of Meno, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 7 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 5 km N 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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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