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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma

· 7.0 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oklahoma County 24 kmLincoln County 26 kmLogan County 39 kmPayne County 51 kmCleveland County 51 kmPottawatomie County 53 kmCanadian County 74 kmSeminole County 75 kmMcClain County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Oklahoma County, 24 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1796 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 9 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 9 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 35.6518, -97.1675. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oklahoma County, OK 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Lincoln County, OK 26 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Logan County, OK 39 km (24 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 51 km (31 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Cleveland County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Pottawatomie County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 Oklahoma
  2. 3.5 5 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 6 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 3 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  5. 2.1 7 km ESE of Meeker, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 2 km SE of Cimarron City, Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 2 km SSE of Cimarron City, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 9 km W of Meeker, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 3 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 11 km NE of Harrah, 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 5.0 on 2016-11-07 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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