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M 1.6ml

14 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma

· 12 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Love County 5 kmCarter County 33 kmCooke County 36 kmMarshall County 49 kmMontague County 50 kmJefferson County 52 kmMurray County 63 kmGrayson County 68 kmJohnston County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Love County, 5 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1889 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 33.9542, -97.2998. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Love County, OK 5 km (3 mi) W of here earthquakes near Love County
Carter County, OK 33 km (21 mi) S of here earthquakes near Carter County
Cooke County, TX 36 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cooke County
Marshall County, OK 49 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Marshall County
Montague County, TX 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Montague County
Jefferson County, OK 52 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 13 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 14 km ENE of Leon, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 10 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 8 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 9 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 9 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 10 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 9 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 9 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 8 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  11. 2.3 10 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 9 km SSE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 13 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 14 km W of Marietta, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 0 km NNW of Sherwood Shores, Texas

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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