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M 1.5ml

11 km W of Whitefield, Oklahoma

· 3.1 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Haskell County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1728 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 35.2590, -95.3645. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Haskell County, OK 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Haskell County
McIntosh County, OK 30 km (19 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near McIntosh County
Muskogee County, OK 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Muskogee County
Latimer County, OK 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Latimer County
Pittsburg County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Pittsburg County
Sequoyah County, OK 62 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sequoyah County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 11 km ESE of Canadian, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 11 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 11 km ESE of Canadian, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 11 km ESE of Canadian, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 11 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 11 km ESE of Canadian, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 12 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  9. 1.9 12 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 13 km ESE of Crowder, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 12 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  12. 2.0 13 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 11 km E of Crowder, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 9 km SSE of Texanna, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 12 km E of Crowder, 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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