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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

4 km ENE of Goltry, Oklahoma

· 15 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alfalfa County 28 kmGarfield County 34 kmGrant County 39 kmMajor County 47 kmKingfisher County 68 kmWoods County 70 kmHarper County 71 kmBlaine County 80 kmNoble County 80 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alfalfa County, 28 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1280 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 33 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 36.5482, -98.1093. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alfalfa County, OK 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Garfield County, OK 34 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Grant County, OK 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Major County, OK 47 km (29 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Major County
Kingfisher County, OK 68 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Woods County, OK 70 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Woods 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. 1.6 4 km SE of Fairview, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 0 km SSW of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  3. 2.1 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  4. 1.8 9 km SSE of Byron, Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 2 km SE of Aline, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 6 km ENE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 Oklahoma
  8. 1.8 0 km SW of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 5 km ENE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 0 km SSW of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 5 km ENE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 Oklahoma
  13. 1.8 0 km SSE of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 0 km ESE of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 5 km ENE of Fairmont, 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 5,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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