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M 4.4mwr

7 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma

· 4.3 km deep · released about 60 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 3 kmPayne County 37 kmOsage County 42 kmCreek County 51 kmNoble County 52 kmTulsa County 68 kmLincoln County 70 kmKay County 71 kmWashington County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.4 (mwr)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
3256 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Pawnee County, 3 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2289 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 3256 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.4 about 60 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 130× 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 36.3047, -96.6657. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 3 km (2 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Osage County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Creek County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Noble County, OK 52 km (32 mi) E of here earthquakes near Noble County
Tulsa County, OK 68 km (42 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Tulsa 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. 3.1 2 km WNW of Skedee, Oklahoma
  2. 2.3 3 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  3. 2.9 2 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 5 km WSW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  6. 3.2 0 km NNW of Yale, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  9. 3.2 4 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  11. 3.8 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 5 km S of Morrison, Oklahoma
  13. 2.0 9 km ENE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 2 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 1 km NNW of Stillwater, 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 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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