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M 1.5ml

5 km N of Buffalo, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 10 kmClark County 43 kmComanche County 47 kmWoodward County 59 kmWoods County 70 kmEllis County 74 kmMeade County 77 kmBeaver County 78 kmKiowa County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 10 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1938 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 36.8813, -99.6212. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, OK 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Clark County, KS 43 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Comanche County, KS 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Comanche County
Woodward County, OK 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Woods County, OK 70 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Woods County
Ellis County, OK 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ellis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 11 km NE of May, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 10 km NE of May, Oklahoma
  3. 2.0 18 km SW of May, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 20 km NNW of Mooreland, Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 23 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 23 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 22 km WSW of Freedom, Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 23 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 18 km ENE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 5 km NW of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 14 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 14 km SE of Buffalo, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 5 km NNE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 10 km NNE of May, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 9 km SW of Englewood, Kansas

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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