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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

16 km ESE of Waynoka, Oklahoma

· 1.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Woods County 25 kmMajor County 29 kmAlfalfa County 40 kmWoodward County 52 kmDewey County 68 kmBarber County 76 kmBlaine County 78 kmGarfield County 84 kmGrant County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Woods County, 25 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3786 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 36.5386, -98.7052. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Woods County, OK 25 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Major County, OK 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Major County
Alfalfa County, OK 40 km (25 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woodward County, OK 52 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Dewey County, OK 68 km (42 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Barber County, KS 76 km (47 mi) S of here earthquakes near Barber 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. 3.0 7 km S of Byron, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 1.5 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 18 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  7. 1.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 17 km ESE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 1.8 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 1.8 12 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 10 km NE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  12. 2.3 8 km NNE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 18 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 17 km SSE of Waynoka, 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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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