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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

16 km E of Red Rock, Oklahoma

· 5.4 km deep · released about 23 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 22 kmPawnee County 31 kmPayne County 41 kmKay County 42 kmOsage County 56 kmGarfield County 71 kmLogan County 72 kmGrant County 80 kmCreek 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Noble County, 22 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1744 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 23 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 660,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 470,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 42× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 23 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 36.4505, -97.0002. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 22 km (14 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Pawnee County, OK 31 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 41 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Payne County
Kay County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Osage County, OK 56 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Garfield County, OK 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 8 km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma
  6. 1.8 8 km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 6 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 2 km SSE of Burbank, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 16 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 11 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 10 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 11 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 1 km NE of Stillwater, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 660,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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