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M 3.4mwr

3 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma

· 6.8 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 19 kmPayne County 27 kmPawnee County 31 kmKay County 57 kmLogan County 58 kmOsage County 66 kmGarfield County 67 kmLincoln County 69 kmCreek 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 3.4 (mwr)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
41 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Noble County, 19 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2382 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 41 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 36.3126, -97.0419. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 19 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 27 km (17 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 31 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Kay County, OK 57 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kay County
Logan County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Osage County, OK 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 2 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  2. 3.5 5 km WSW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  3. 2.8 2 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 3.5 2 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 2 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 2.2 3 km WNW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 1 km NW of Skedee, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 5 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 5 km ESE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 9 km N of Coyle, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 3 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 3.0 5 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 7 km N of Maramec, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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