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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km S of Mulhall, Oklahoma

· 17 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 14 kmPayne County 39 kmNoble County 42 kmKingfisher County 49 kmGarfield County 52 kmOklahoma County 53 kmLincoln County 60 kmPawnee County 70 kmCanadian County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 14 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 250 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× 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 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 36.0337, -97.4012. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 14 km (9 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kingfisher County, OK 49 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Garfield County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Oklahoma County, OK 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.0 5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma
  2. 0.8 2 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 5 km SE of Dover, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 5 km SSE of Dover, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 12 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  7. 1.6 6 km WSW of Marshall, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 5 km S of Lucien, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 4 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 4 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  11. 1.9 3 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  12. 2.3 8 km NW of Edmond, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 8 km NW of Edmond, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 8 km NW of Edmond, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 8 km NW of Edmond, 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 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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