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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0mwr

16 km SW of Dacoma, Oklahoma

· 4.5 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Woods County 27 kmMajor County 28 kmAlfalfa County 38 kmWoodward County 55 kmDewey County 70 kmBarber County 76 kmBlaine County 77 kmGarfield County 81 kmGrant County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (mwr)
Depth
4.5 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Woods County, 27 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3671 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 36.5402, -98.6728. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Woods County, OK 27 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Major County, OK 28 km (17 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Major County
Alfalfa County, OK 38 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woodward County, OK 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Dewey County, OK 70 km (43 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

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

  1. 3.0 4 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 7 km WNW of Jet, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 10 km NNW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 6 km NW of Jet, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 5 km NE of Carmen, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 13 km WSW of Aline, Oklahoma
  10. 3.2 14 km WSW of Aline, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 16 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 9 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 9 km SW 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 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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