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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

9 km ENE of Mulhall, Oklahoma

· 5.8 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 23 kmPayne County 30 kmNoble County 34 kmGarfield County 54 kmLincoln County 57 kmKingfisher County 58 kmOklahoma County 59 kmPawnee County 60 kmKay County 83 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 23 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3575 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 36.0829, -97.3067. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 23 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 30 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 34 km (21 mi) S of here earthquakes near Noble County
Garfield County, OK 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Lincoln County, OK 57 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Kingfisher County, OK 58 km (36 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

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

  1. 2.8 6 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  2. 2.8 0 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  3. 3.2 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  4. 2.7 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 4 km ENE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 14 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  7. 2.9 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  9. 3.2 Oklahoma
  10. 2.4 7 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 14 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 2 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 2 km NW of Fairmont, 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 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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