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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

6 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma

· 7.5 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 7 kmHarper County 45 kmAlfalfa County 49 kmSumner County 50 kmGarfield County 52 kmKay County 57 kmNoble County 71 kmKingman County 84 kmBarber County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
96 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Grant County, 7 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1700 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 96 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 36.8487, -97.7882. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 7 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 45 km (28 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Alfalfa County, OK 49 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 50 km (31 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 52 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Kay County, OK 57 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  2. 2.3 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  3. 1.9 7 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 Oklahoma
  5. 2.2 6 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  6. 2.3 6 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 7 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 6 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 7 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 7 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 10 km W of Wakita, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 0 km ENE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  13. 2.2 6 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 7 km NW of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  15. 2.2 6 km NW of Medford, 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 4.5 on 2022-01-31 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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