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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

9 km W of Mulhall, Oklahoma

· 4.9 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 18 kmKingfisher County 40 kmGarfield County 42 kmNoble County 44 kmPayne County 49 kmOklahoma County 58 kmLincoln County 70 kmCanadian County 71 kmPawnee County 79 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 18 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1983 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 36.0657, -97.5177. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 18 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Kingfisher County, OK 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Garfield County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 44 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 49 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Payne County
Oklahoma County, OK 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  2. 2.2 9 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 9 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  4. 2.1 9 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 9 km WNW of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 4 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 4 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma
  9. 2.3 2 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 5 km E of Enid, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 3 km W of Douglas, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 5 km E of Hennessey, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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