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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5mb_lg

6 km WSW of Sparks, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 12 kmPottawatomie County 43 kmOklahoma County 48 kmOkfuskee County 52 kmPayne County 55 kmSeminole County 55 kmCreek County 57 kmCleveland County 59 kmLogan County 62 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 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 12 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3406 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 35.5938, -96.8855. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 12 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pottawatomie County, OK 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Oklahoma County, OK 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Okfuskee County, OK 52 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Payne County, OK 55 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Payne County
Seminole County, OK 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Seminole 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. 2.5 7 km N of Spencer, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 5 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 2 km SE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 7 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 9 km NE of Kendrick, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 7 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 7 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 Oklahoma
  9. 2.6 4 km NE of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  10. 3.1 7 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 3.0 Oklahoma
  15. 2.3 5 km WNW of Arcadia, 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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