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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km ESE of Manchester, Oklahoma

· 3.7 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 24 kmGrant County 29 kmAlfalfa County 40 kmSumner County 53 kmKingman County 65 kmBarber County 66 kmGarfield County 69 kmKay County 78 kmWoods County 82 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 24 km NNW
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 36.9793, -98.0018. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, KS 24 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Grant County, OK 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 53 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kingman County, KS 65 km (40 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kingman County
Barber County, KS 66 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8 km NNE of Nash, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 3 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma
  3. 1.5 4 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 8 km NNW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 9 km SSE of Byron, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 1 km SE of Danville, Kansas
  7. 2.6 5 km WSW of Danville, Kansas
  8. 1.8 4 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 6 km SSE of Spivey, Kansas
  10. 2.4 9 km S of Spivey, Kansas
  11. 1.7 5 km N of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  12. 2.3 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 5 km S of Milton, Kansas
  14. 1.9 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 12 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas

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 21,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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