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M 3.4mwr

8 km WSW of Glencoe, Oklahoma

· 7.3 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 15 kmNoble County 28 kmPawnee County 31 kmLogan County 52 kmLincoln County 58 kmCreek County 66 kmKay County 68 kmOsage County 71 kmGarfield County 72 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 (mwr)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
278 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Payne County, 15 km SSE
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. 278 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 36.2140, -97.0140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 15 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Pawnee County, OK 31 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Logan County, OK 52 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Lincoln County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Creek County, OK 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 2.9 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  3. 3.1 9 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  7. 3.8 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  9. 3.7 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 5 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  11. 2.0 4 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 9 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 2 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  15. 2.7 14 km NW of Pawnee, 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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