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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

11 km ENE of Leedey, Oklahoma

· 7.3 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Dewey County 21 kmCuster County 38 kmRoger Mills County 51 kmWoodward County 56 kmEllis County 57 kmBlaine County 73 kmWashita County 74 kmMajor County 76 kmBeckham County 83 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dewey County, 21 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 41 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 35.9205, -99.2383. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dewey County, OK 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Custer County, OK 38 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Custer County
Roger Mills County, OK 51 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Roger Mills County
Woodward County, OK 56 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Ellis County, OK 57 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Blaine County, OK 73 km (45 mi) W of here earthquakes near Blaine County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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