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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

9 km SSE of Ada, Oklahoma

· 0.0 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pontotoc County, 5 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 872 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× 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 6.6 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 34.6973, -96.6412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pontotoc County, OK 5 km (3 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Pontotoc County
Coal County, OK 35 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Coal County
Johnston County, OK 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Johnston County
Murray County, OK 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Murray County
Seminole County, OK 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Seminole County
Hughes County, OK 53 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Hughes County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 7 km N of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 1.2 6 km ESE of Dougherty, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km SW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 3 km SW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 2 km SE of Stonewall, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 11 km SE of Bowlegs, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 7 km N of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 1.5 5 km SE of Dougherty, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 13 km SSW of Stonewall, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 6 km SW of Stonewall, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 6 km E of Francis, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 5 km SE of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 3 km NNW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 3 km SW of Fitzhugh, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 3 km SSW of Mill Creek, 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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