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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

8 km S of Perry, Oklahoma

· 10 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 19 kmPayne County 31 kmLogan County 37 kmGarfield County 49 kmPawnee County 53 kmKingfisher County 66 kmKay County 68 kmLincoln County 68 kmOklahoma 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Noble County, 19 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3677 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 36.2177, -97.2799. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 31 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Logan County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Garfield County, OK 49 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Pawnee County, OK 53 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Kingfisher County, OK 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher 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. 2.6 0 km ENE of Cimarron City, Oklahoma
  2. 3.2 Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 4 km NW of Orlando, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 8 km SW of Perry, Oklahoma
  5. 3.2 10 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 4 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 9 km WNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  8. 2.3 4 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 7 km WNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 6 km WNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 3.1 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 5 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  15. 3.5 5 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2016-03-29 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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