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M 1.7ml

11 km ENE of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

· 5.1 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garvin County 20 kmMurray County 32 kmPontotoc County 39 kmMcClain County 41 kmPottawatomie County 50 kmCleveland County 52 kmCarter County 61 kmSeminole County 63 kmJohnston County 66 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garvin County, 20 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 767 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 34.7763, -97.1098. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garvin County, OK 20 km (12 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Garvin County
Murray County, OK 32 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Murray County
Pontotoc County, OK 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pontotoc County
McClain County, OK 41 km (25 mi) SE of here earthquakes near McClain County
Pottawatomie County, OK 50 km (31 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Cleveland County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Cleveland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8 km WNW of Davis, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 8 km WNW of Davis, Oklahoma
  3. 2.0 6 km NW of Davis, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 3 km NNW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 3 km SW of Fitzhugh, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 9 km ESE of Katie, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 6 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 11 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 7 km WSW of Maysville, Oklahoma
  10. 2.0 10 km NNW of Foster, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 2 km NW of Foster, Oklahoma
  12. 2.3 10 km NNW of Foster, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 11 km NNW of Foster, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 5 km NNW of Foster, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 4 km NNW of Foster, 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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