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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4ml

9 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma

· 4.2 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 19 kmNoble County 31 kmPayne County 36 kmOsage County 50 kmKay County 52 kmCreek County 71 kmLogan County 74 kmLincoln County 77 kmGarfield 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
4.2 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Pawnee County, 19 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3470 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 36.3961, -96.8858. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 19 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Noble County, OK 31 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 36 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Osage County, OK 50 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Kay County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Creek County, OK 71 km (44 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 14 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 12 km WSW of Quay, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 8 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  4. 2.7 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 2 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 1.8 1 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 5 km NNE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 10 km SE of Perry, Oklahoma
  10. 2.5 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  11. 3.5 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  12. 2.1 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  13. 2.4 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 14 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 14 km WSW of Ralston, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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