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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

2 km WNW of Crescent, Oklahoma

· 7.6 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 16 kmKingfisher County 28 kmOklahoma County 49 kmGarfield County 49 kmCanadian County 56 kmNoble County 59 kmPayne County 59 kmLincoln County 72 kmBlaine County 73 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 16 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1742 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 9.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 35.9573, -97.6188. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Kingfisher County, OK 28 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Oklahoma County, OK 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Garfield County, OK 49 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Canadian County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Noble County, OK 59 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Noble County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 5 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 8 km SSE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 5 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 3 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 6 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 2 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 2 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 2 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 2 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 2 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  12. 2.0 9 km N of Piedmont, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 2 km NW of Covington, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 9 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 9 km N of Piedmont, 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 4.6 on 2018-04-09 — it released about 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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