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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 23 kmLogan County 24 kmLincoln County 42 kmNoble County 45 kmOklahoma County 51 kmPawnee County 59 kmKingfisher County 66 kmGarfield County 69 kmCreek County 74 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Payne County, 23 km ENE
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. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 35.9781, -97.2001. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 23 km (14 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Logan County, OK 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Lincoln County, OK 42 km (26 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Noble County, OK 45 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Noble County
Oklahoma County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Pawnee County, OK 59 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 7 km W of Morrison, Oklahoma
  2. 3.2 4 km S of Meridian, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 5 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 5 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 3.1 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 5 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 7 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  8. 3.1 7 km S of Perry, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 7 km S of Perry, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 1 km WSW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  11. 3.0 7 km S of Perry, Oklahoma
  12. 2.4 7 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  13. 3.0 2 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 3.1 2 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 8 km S of Perry, 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 4.2 on 2016-04-07 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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