quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.5ml
5.0 km NE of Salina, OK
No: USGS classifies this as a quarry blast, not an earthquake. A magnitude 1.5 quarry blast was recorded 5.0 km NE of Salina, OK, 65 km (40 mi) ENE of Tulsa, OK, at 1:49 pm CST on 16 November 2020 (19:49 UTC), less than 1 km deep.
65 km (40 mi) ENE of Tulsa, OK · 58 km (36 mi) ENE of Broken Arrow, OK
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 0.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mayes County, 5 km NW
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2185 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Salina, Locust Grove, Pryor, Pryor Creek, Chouteau, Kenwood.
USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 5.9 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 36.2660, -95.1982. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayes County, OK | 5 km (3 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Mayes County |
| Delaware County, OK | 38 km (23 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Delaware County |
| Rogers County, OK | 38 km (24 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Rogers County |
| Wagoner County, OK | 44 km (27 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Wagoner County |
| Cherokee County, OK | 44 km (27 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Cherokee County |
| Craig County, OK | 55 km (34 mi) | N | earthquakes near Craig 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.
- 1.9 1 km ESE of Woodall, Oklahoma
- 1.6 2 km SSW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.8 3 km SSW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 2.0 2 km SW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.9 4 km SW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.9 2 km N of Sportsmen Acres, Oklahoma
- 1.6 2 km E of Sportsmen Acres, Oklahoma
- 1.7 4 km SW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.8 3 km NE of Sportsmen Acres, Oklahoma
- 1.8 Oklahoma
- 1.5 1 km SSW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.9 3 km S of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.9 3 km SW of Hulbert, Oklahoma
- 1.8 2 km ENE of Sportsmen Acres, Oklahoma
- 1.5 4 km NE of Sportsmen Acres, 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.
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