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M 1.6ml

Oklahoma

· 9.4 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N McClain County 18 kmGrady County 28 kmGarvin County 36 kmCleveland County 41 kmStephens County 54 kmPottawatomie County 67 kmMurray County 69 kmOklahoma County 72 kmCaddo County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
McClain County, 18 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1549 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 6.8 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 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 34.9227, -97.6050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
McClain County, OK 18 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near McClain County
Grady County, OK 28 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Grady County
Garvin County, OK 36 km (22 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Garvin County
Cleveland County, OK 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Stephens County, OK 54 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Stephens County
Pottawatomie County, OK 67 km (42 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1 km NW of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 1 km SE of Erin Springs, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 1 km NNW of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 1 km NNW of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 1 km N of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 1 km N of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 2 km NNE of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 2 km NE of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 10 km SSW of Bradley, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 3 km WSW of Washington, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 5 km SW of Washington, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 3 km WSW of Washington, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 4 km WSW of Washington, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 4 km WSW of Washington, 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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