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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

8 km ESE of Mill Creek, Oklahoma

· 20 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Johnston County 11 kmMurray County 33 kmPontotoc County 38 kmMarshall County 40 kmCoal County 46 kmCarter County 53 kmBryan County 64 kmAtoka County 64 kmGarvin County 64 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Johnston County, 11 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 915 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

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 34.3850, -96.7328. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Johnston County, OK 11 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Johnston County
Murray County, OK 33 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Murray County
Pontotoc County, OK 38 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pontotoc County
Marshall County, OK 40 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marshall County
Coal County, OK 46 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Coal County
Carter County, OK 53 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Carter 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. 1.5 9 km SSE of Wapanucka, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 10 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  3. 1.5 9 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 7 km N of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 5 km SE of Dougherty, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 9 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  7. 3.1 2 km WNW of Springer, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 13 km SSW of Stonewall, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 6 km SSE of Tishomingo, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 6 km SW of Stonewall, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 8 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 10 km SSE of Wapanucka, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 9 km SSE of Wapanucka, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 5 km SE of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 8 km WNW of Davis, 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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