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M 1.6ml

2 km NE of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma

· 5.4 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grady County 30 kmMcClain County 36 kmCleveland County 36 kmCanadian County 40 kmOklahoma County 43 kmCaddo County 61 kmPottawatomie County 69 kmGarvin County 71 kmLogan County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grady County, 30 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1462 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 35.2550, -97.7172. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grady County, OK 30 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grady County
McClain County, OK 36 km (22 mi) NW of here earthquakes near McClain County
Cleveland County, OK 36 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Canadian County, OK 40 km (25 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Oklahoma County, OK 43 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Caddo County, OK 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Caddo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 8 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 8 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 6 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 6 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 4 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 7 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  7. 1.7 Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 3 km SW of Minco, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 8 km S of Dibble, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 3 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 4 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 5 km ENE of Union City, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 7 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 6 km WSW of Minco, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 7 km WSW of Minco, 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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