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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma

· 5.8 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 16 kmKay County 41 kmSumner County 48 kmGarfield County 51 kmHarper County 58 kmNoble County 59 kmAlfalfa County 64 kmCowley County 83 kmKingman County 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Grant County, 16 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3116 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 36.8184, -97.6097. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 41 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Harper County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Noble County, OK 59 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Noble County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 0 km NNW of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 1.9 6 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 1.6 4 km WNW of South Haven, Kansas
  4. 2.1 0 km NNW of Bluff City, Kansas
  5. 3.0 5 km S of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  7. 2.0 9 km W of Medford, Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 1 km SSE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  9. 3.6 1 km SSE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  10. 2.0 5 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  11. 1.8 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  12. 2.6 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 6 km SE of Anthony, Kansas
  14. 2.7 11 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 8 km W of Deer Creek, 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 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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