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M 2.5ml

Oklahoma

· 6.8 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 12 kmBlaine County 42 kmAlfalfa County 54 kmKingfisher County 56 kmGarfield County 59 kmDewey County 61 kmWoods County 66 kmWoodward County 78 kmGrant County 83 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Major County, 12 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 36.2514, -98.4305. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 12 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Major County
Blaine County, OK 42 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Alfalfa County, OK 54 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Kingfisher County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Garfield County, OK 59 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Dewey County, OK 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Dewey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  2. 2.8 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  3. 4.0 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 5.1 18 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 16 km ESE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 6 km SE of Drummond, Oklahoma
  8. 3.1 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 3.2 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 22 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 8 km SSE of Meno, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 5 km ESE of Goltry, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 3 km SW of Lambert, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 2.7 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 4.7 on 2016-01-07 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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