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M 2.7ml

8 km ESE of Pond Creek, Oklahoma

· 8.0 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 17 kmGarfield County 31 kmNoble County 51 kmKay County 53 kmAlfalfa County 56 kmHarper County 68 kmSumner County 68 kmKingfisher County 81 kmMajor County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Grant County, 17 km NNW
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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 36.6514, -97.7070. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 17 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Garfield County, OK 31 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kay County, OK 53 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Alfalfa County, OK 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Harper County, KS 68 km (42 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper 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. 2.8 5 km WSW of Breckinridge, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 7 km ENE of Covington, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 11 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 2.6 6 km SSE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 7 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 2.7 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  7. 3.2 2 km NW of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 2 km NW of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  9. 2.7 2 km NW of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  10. 2.3 7 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  11. 2.6 3 km ESE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 7 km N of Meno, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 2 km S of Caldwell, Kansas
  14. 1.5 2 km S of Caldwell, Kansas
  15. 2.2 7 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas

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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