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M 3.0ml

4 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma

· 3.7 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 23 kmPawnee County 26 kmPayne County 29 kmKay County 55 kmOsage County 61 kmLogan County 63 kmLincoln County 71 kmGarfield County 72 kmCreek County 72 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Noble County, 23 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3799 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 36.3366, -96.9858. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 23 km (14 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Pawnee County, OK 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 29 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Payne County
Kay County, OK 55 km (34 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Osage County, OK 61 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Logan County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 7 km E of Lucien, Oklahoma
  3. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 3.0 7 km NNE of Perkins, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 5 km NNW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 5 km SE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 5 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  10. 2.5 13 km SE of Billings, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 5 km SE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 13 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 11 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km WNW of Lucien, 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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