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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

4 km SE of Dover, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kingfisher County 5 kmLogan County 39 kmCanadian County 46 kmGarfield County 49 kmBlaine County 50 kmOklahoma County 61 kmMajor County 72 kmNoble County 76 kmPayne County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kingfisher County, 5 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1447 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× 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 6.6 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 35.9452, -97.8798. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kingfisher County, OK 5 km (3 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Logan County, OK 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Logan County
Canadian County, OK 46 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Garfield County, OK 49 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Blaine County, OK 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Oklahoma County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3 km NNE of Okarche, Oklahoma
  2. 2.2 Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 2 km NNE of Okarche, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 4 km NE of Okarche, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 3 km ENE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 1 km NNE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 3 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 16 km WNW of Okarche, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 4 km W of Dover, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 4 km WNW of Dover, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 4 km W of Dover, Oklahoma
  12. 2.3 5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma
  13. 2.4 2 km SE of Cimarron City, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 2 km SSE of Cimarron City, 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 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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