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M 1.6ml

7 km SSE of Tupelo, Oklahoma

· 24 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Coal County 11 kmPontotoc County 34 kmJohnston County 35 kmAtoka County 37 kmHughes County 58 kmMurray County 62 kmBryan County 65 kmMarshall County 67 kmSeminole County 71 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Coal County, 11 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 579 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 34.5415, -96.3948. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Coal County, OK 11 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Coal County
Pontotoc County, OK 34 km (21 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pontotoc County
Johnston County, OK 35 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Johnston County
Atoka County, OK 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Atoka County
Hughes County, OK 58 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hughes County
Murray County, OK 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Murray County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 7 km N of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 2.0 5 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km SW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 4 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 5 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  6. 1.8 6 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 3 km ENE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 4 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  9. 1.9 4 km ENE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 3 km SW of Mill Creek, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 5 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 3 km NE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 4 km ENE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  14. 2.4 4 km ENE of Wardville, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 4 km NE of Wardville, 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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