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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

4 km W of Ponca City, Oklahoma

· 8.4 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kay County 12 kmNoble County 37 kmGrant County 58 kmPawnee County 59 kmCowley County 64 kmOsage County 66 kmSumner County 66 kmGarfield County 69 kmPayne County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kay County, 12 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 835 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 36.7097, -97.1412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kay County, OK 12 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kay County
Noble County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Grant County, OK 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Grant County
Pawnee County, OK 59 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Cowley County, KS 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Osage County, OK 66 km (41 mi) W of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 6 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 15 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 16 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 8 km NNW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  6. 2.2 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 4 km SSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  8. 1.8 10 km W of Braman, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 10 km E of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 6 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 11 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 6 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 9 km NNW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 4 km NW of Red Rock, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 580,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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