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M 3.7ml

13 km ESE of Byron, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 5.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alfalfa County 22 kmGrant County 33 kmHarper County 36 kmBarber County 61 kmGarfield County 64 kmWoods County 66 kmSumner County 71 kmMajor County 72 kmKingman 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 3.7 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Alfalfa County, 22 km SW
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. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 11× 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 36.8753, -98.1483. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alfalfa County, OK 22 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Grant County, OK 33 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 36 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harper County
Barber County, KS 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Barber County
Garfield County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Woods County, OK 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Woods County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 7 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 2.5 6 km SSW of Byron, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 5 km E of Manchester, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 7 km NE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 6 km S of Anthony, Kansas
  6. 1.5 11 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 1.7 8 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  8. 2.7 9 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  9. 2.0 6 km SW of Manchester, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 11 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  11. 2.7 13 km N of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 12 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 11 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  14. 2.6 12 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  15. 3.0 7 km SE of Manchester, 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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