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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2mwr

0 km NNW of Yale, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 22 kmPayne County 25 kmCreek County 37 kmLincoln County 49 kmNoble County 56 kmOsage County 62 kmTulsa County 68 kmLogan County 71 kmOkfuskee County 80 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 3.2 (mwr)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
34 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Pawnee County, 22 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2383 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 34 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 36.1202, -96.7023. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 22 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 25 km (15 mi) E of here earthquakes near Payne County
Creek County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Lincoln County, OK 49 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Noble County, OK 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Osage County, OK 62 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Osage 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. 2.6 4 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  2. 3.0 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  4. 3.3 9 km SW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 2 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  8. 3.3 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 12 km NNE of Ripley, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  11. 2.9 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 3.1 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  15. 1.8 4 km E 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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