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M 4.2mwr

5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma

· 6.7 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 26 kmNoble County 27 kmLogan County 42 kmKingfisher County 53 kmPayne County 54 kmGrant County 61 kmKay County 67 kmPawnee County 73 kmOklahoma County 82 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 4.2 (mwr)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
320 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Garfield County, 26 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1984 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 320 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× more

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 36.2890, -97.5158. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 27 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 42 km (26 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 54 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Grant County, OK 61 km (38 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

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

  1. 1.8 3 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  3. 2.4 Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 4 km N of Breckinridge, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 5 km NW of Bison, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 8 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  7. 1.7 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 8 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 2 km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 4 km NW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 7 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma
  12. 2.1 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  13. 1.8 4 km E of Enid, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 5 km ESE of Covington, 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 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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