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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

8 km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 13 kmOklahoma County 27 kmKingfisher County 48 kmLincoln County 51 kmPayne County 52 kmCanadian County 57 kmCleveland County 67 kmNoble County 67 kmGarfield County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Logan County, 13 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 783 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 35.7995, -97.4340. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Logan County
Oklahoma County, OK 27 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Kingfisher County, OK 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Lincoln County, OK 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Payne County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Canadian County, OK 57 km (35 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Canadian County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 3 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 2 km NNE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 3 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  10. 2.2 6 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  12. 2.1 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 4 km WSW of Piedmont, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 5 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 8 km ESE of Kingfisher, 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 4.6 on 2018-04-09 — it released about 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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