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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

6 km N of Lamar, Oklahoma

· 0.0 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hughes County, 17 km SW
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.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 28 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 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 35.1592, -96.1233. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hughes County, OK 17 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hughes County
Okfuskee County, OK 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Pittsburg County, OK 43 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pittsburg County
Seminole County, OK 44 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Seminole County
McIntosh County, OK 47 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near McIntosh County
Okmulgee County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Okmulgee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km NW of Stidham, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 2 km WNW of Savanna, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 5 km W of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  4. 2.1 5 km W of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 5 km W of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 5 km W of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  7. 2.3 3 km SW of Horntown, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 5 km NE of Stuart, Oklahoma
  9. 1.8 Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 1 km ENE of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 2 km E of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 2 km E of Arpelar, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 5 km NE of Stuart, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 5 km WNW of Horntown, 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.

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