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M 3.3ml

7 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1.2 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Carter County 23 kmMurray County 36 kmGarvin County 36 kmStephens County 38 kmJefferson County 49 kmLove County 53 kmMcClain County 68 kmJohnston County 74 kmMarshall County 75 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Carter County, 23 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 135 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.2 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.5× more

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 34.4072, -97.4477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Carter County, OK 23 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Carter County
Murray County, OK 36 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Murray County
Garvin County, OK 36 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Garvin County
Stephens County, OK 38 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Stephens County
Jefferson County, OK 49 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Love County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Love County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 15 km S of Wilson, Oklahoma
  2. 1.5 10 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 13 km E of Bray, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 14 km E of Bray, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 13 km E of Bray, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 15 km W of Foster, Oklahoma
  7. 1.5 5 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 14 km E of Bray, Oklahoma
  9. 2.0 6 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 3 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 14 km W of Foster, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 3 km ESE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 4 km ESE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  14. 1.5 9 km W of Davis, Oklahoma
  15. 1.5 3 km ESE of Ratliff City, 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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