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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km N of Okeene, Oklahoma

· 6.6 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 28 kmBlaine County 32 kmKingfisher County 40 kmGarfield County 53 kmAlfalfa County 65 kmDewey County 66 kmCanadian County 73 kmWoods County 81 kmLogan County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Major County, 28 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 920 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 36.1457, -98.3105. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Major County
Blaine County, OK 32 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Kingfisher County, OK 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Garfield County, OK 53 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Alfalfa County, OK 65 km (40 mi) S of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Dewey County, OK 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Dewey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 6 km ENE of Aline, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 9 km WNW of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 6 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 6 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 8 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 10 km WNW of Okarche, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 2 km NNE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 2 km N of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 2 km NNE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 13 km NE of Geary, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 4 km NE of Watonga, Oklahoma
  13. 2.2 4 km NE of Watonga, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 6 km NNE of Watonga, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 4 km ENE of Canton, 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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