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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4ml

9 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma

· 4.5 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Woods County 24 kmWoodward County 30 kmMajor County 45 kmAlfalfa County 62 kmDewey County 62 kmHarper County 69 kmComanche County 77 kmEllis County 78 kmBarber County 81 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 (ml)
Depth
4.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Woods County, 24 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3474 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 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 36.5311, -98.9679. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Woods County, OK 24 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Woods County
Woodward County, OK 30 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Major County, OK 45 km (28 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Major County
Alfalfa County, OK 62 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Dewey County, OK 62 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Dewey County
Harper County, OK 69 km (43 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 12 km S of Freedom, Oklahoma
  2. 2.8 15 km WNW of Alva, Oklahoma
  3. 3.8 10 km S of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 3.3 11 km S of Freedom, Oklahoma
  6. 3.5 10 km NE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  7. 3.3 9 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 10 km WSW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 3.1 15 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  14. 3.4 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 2.7 5 km N of Quinlan, 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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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