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M 2.5ml

1 km SSW of Wellston, Oklahoma

· 5.9 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 17 kmOklahoma County 34 kmLogan County 43 kmPayne County 45 kmPottawatomie County 53 kmCleveland County 58 kmCreek County 67 kmOkfuskee County 71 kmSeminole County 72 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
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 17 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3517 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 35.6828, -97.0685. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 17 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Oklahoma County, OK 34 km (21 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Logan County, OK 43 km (27 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 45 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pottawatomie County, OK 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Cleveland County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cleveland 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. 2.7 10 km NNE of Kendrick, Oklahoma
  2. 3.0 4 km SSE of Luther, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 3 km ENE of Choctaw, Oklahoma
  5. 2.3 4 km W of Sparks, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 7 km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 10 km W of Langston, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 6 km WNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  11. 3.1 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 11 km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  13. 2.4 6 km WNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 11 km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  15. 2.1 5 km SSW of Guthrie, 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 5.0 on 2016-11-07 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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