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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

10 km WNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma

· 5.8 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 12 kmKay County 39 kmGarfield County 46 kmPayne County 53 kmGrant County 56 kmPawnee County 57 kmLogan County 65 kmOsage County 80 kmKingfisher County 83 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Noble County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3340 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 36.4879, -97.2901. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 12 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kay County, OK 39 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Garfield County, OK 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Payne County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Grant County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Pawnee County, OK 57 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 Oklahoma
  3. 2.4 10 km ESE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 9 km WSW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  5. 3.3 10 km E of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 4 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 12 km N of Coyle, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 9 km E of Medford, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  10. 3.3 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 4 km ENE of Covington, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  14. 2.4 11 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  15. 2.3 9 km ESE of Jefferson, 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 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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