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M 5.0mww

3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma

· 4.4 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 18 kmLincoln County 33 kmPawnee County 37 kmCreek County 39 kmNoble County 59 kmLogan County 59 kmOkfuskee County 72 kmOklahoma County 73 kmTulsa County 79 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 5.0 (mww)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
11428 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking
intensity VII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Payne County, 18 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 220 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 11428 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 35.9907, -96.8030. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 18 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 33 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pawnee County, OK 37 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 39 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Noble County, OK 59 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Logan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 2 km N of Skedee, Oklahoma
  3. 3.2 5 km WNW of Quay, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 9 km NW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  5. 2.3 3 km WNW of Skedee, Oklahoma
  6. 3.0 7 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  7. 3.1 2 km WNW of Skedee, Oklahoma
  8. 2.3 3 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 2 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 5 km WSW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 3.2 0 km NNW of Yale, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  15. 3.2 4 km NNE of Cushing, 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 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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