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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

5 km N of Pawnee, Oklahoma

· 3.5 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 13 kmPayne County 37 kmNoble County 39 kmOsage County 44 kmKay County 56 kmCreek County 66 kmLincoln County 76 kmLogan County 78 kmTulsa 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pawnee County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3576 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 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 36.3862, -96.8060. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Noble County
Osage County, OK 44 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Kay County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Creek County, OK 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek 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. 2.0 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  2. 2.0 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 3.1 10 km NE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  4. 1.8 10 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  6. 2.0 8 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  7. 2.4 8 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 15 km N of Morrison, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 16 km N of Morrison, Oklahoma
  10. 2.2 5 km WSW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  11. 2.4 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  12. 3.0 8 km NW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 Oklahoma
  14. 2.2 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  15. 2.1 13 km NW of Pawnee, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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