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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

9 km SSE of Sparks, Oklahoma

· 10 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 21 kmPottawatomie County 40 kmOkfuskee County 41 kmSeminole County 45 kmCreek County 54 kmOklahoma County 58 kmCleveland County 62 kmPayne County 63 kmHughes County 72 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lincoln County, 21 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 677 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 35.5368, -96.7733. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 21 km (13 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pottawatomie County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Okfuskee County, OK 41 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Seminole County, OK 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Seminole County
Creek County, OK 54 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Oklahoma County, OK 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  3. 2.8 8 km NNW of Prague, Oklahoma
  4. 3.1 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 8 km NNW of Prague, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  9. 1.9 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 3 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 9 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  15. 3.3 8 km NW of Prague, 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 5.1 on 2024-02-03 — it released about 220,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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