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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

6 km W of Loyal, Oklahoma

· 7.2 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Blaine County 24 kmKingfisher County 24 kmMajor County 49 kmCanadian County 52 kmGarfield County 58 kmLogan County 67 kmDewey County 74 kmCuster County 81 kmAlfalfa County 85 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Blaine County, 24 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1223 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 35.9743, -98.1967. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Blaine County, OK 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Kingfisher County, OK 24 km (15 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Major County, OK 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Major County
Canadian County, OK 52 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Garfield County, OK 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Logan County, OK 67 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Logan 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. 2.1 6 km N of Calumet, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 5 km N of Calumet, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 5 km N of Calumet, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 5 km N of Calumet, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 5 km N of Calumet, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 3 km NW of Dover, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 4 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  8. 2.1 4 km NNW of Dover, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 4 km NNW of Dover, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 4 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  12. 1.5 5 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 4 km NNW of Dover, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 4 km NNW of Dover, Oklahoma
  15. 2.4 4 km NNW of Dover, 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 4.1 on 2016-01-18 — it released about 4,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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