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M 3.4ml

5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma

· 7.1 km deep · released about 1.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oklahoma County 13 kmLogan County 27 kmLincoln County 48 kmCleveland County 52 kmCanadian County 53 kmKingfisher County 56 kmPayne County 60 kmPottawatomie County 66 kmMcClain County 73 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 3.4 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
391 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Oklahoma County, 13 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 471 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 391 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,300× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.3× more

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 35.6717, -97.4162. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oklahoma County, OK 13 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Logan County, OK 27 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Logan County
Lincoln County, OK 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Cleveland County, OK 52 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Canadian County, OK 53 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Kingfisher County, OK 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  5. 2.1 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 4 km WSW of Piedmont, Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 8 km ESE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 4 km NNW of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  12. 2.4 7 km SW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 5 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 6 km ENE of Edmond, 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 4.3 on 2024-01-13 — it released about 23 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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