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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km ESE of Meeker, Oklahoma

· 7.5 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 25 kmPottawatomie County 31 kmSeminole County 42 kmOkfuskee County 47 kmOklahoma County 51 kmCleveland County 52 kmCreek County 64 kmPayne County 68 kmHughes County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 25 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2075 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 35.4765, -96.8487. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 25 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pottawatomie County, OK 31 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Seminole County, OK 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Seminole County
Okfuskee County, OK 47 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Oklahoma County, OK 51 km (32 mi) E of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Cleveland County, OK 52 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cleveland 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. 2.0 10 km WSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 6 km W of Johnson, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 7 km WSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 5 km ESE of Meeker, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 10 km WSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 8 km SSW of Warwick, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 8 km SSW of Warwick, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 8 km SSW of Warwick, Oklahoma
  11. 2.0 8 km SSW of Warwick, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 7 km NE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 3 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 2 km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma
  15. 2.3 6 km WNW of Prague, 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 4.2 on 2016-04-07 — it released about 8,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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