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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6 km S of Carter, Oklahoma

· 5.1 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Beckham County 21 kmGreer County 25 kmWashita County 49 kmKiowa County 54 kmHarmon County 55 kmJackson County 63 kmRoger Mills County 65 kmCuster County 71 kmWheeler County 73 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Beckham County, 21 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 332 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 8.4 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 35.1583, -99.5055. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Beckham County, OK 21 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Beckham County
Greer County, OK 25 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Greer County
Washita County, OK 49 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Washita County
Kiowa County, OK 54 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kiowa County
Harmon County, OK 55 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Harmon County
Jackson County, OK 63 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jackson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 9 km NNE of Friendship, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 16 km SSW of Sayre, 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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