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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

10 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma

· 8.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 24 kmPayne County 28 kmLogan County 33 kmGarfield County 52 kmPawnee County 54 kmLincoln County 63 kmKingfisher County 65 kmOklahoma County 70 kmKay County 73 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Noble County, 24 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3448 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 36.1704, -97.2684. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 28 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Logan County, OK 33 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Garfield County, OK 52 km (32 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Pawnee County, OK 54 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Lincoln County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 2 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 0 km WSW of Covington, Oklahoma
  3. 1.8 1 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 5 km NNE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 5 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 10 km SE of Perry, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 4 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  10. 3.5 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  11. 2.4 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 14 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 14 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 16 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km WNW 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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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