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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

2 km SW of Braman, Oklahoma

· 1.7 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kay County 21 kmSumner County 39 kmGrant County 41 kmCowley County 58 kmNoble County 59 kmHarper County 71 kmGarfield County 71 kmSedgwick County 86 kmPawnee County 88 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
1.7 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Kay County, 21 km ESE
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. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 36.9086, -97.3513. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kay County, OK 21 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Grant County, OK 41 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Cowley County, KS 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Noble County, OK 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Noble County
Harper County, KS 71 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 6 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 1 km SSE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 7 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 1.6 4 km WNW of South Haven, Kansas
  5. 1.9 6 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  6. 1.6 4 km WNW of South Haven, Kansas
  7. 3.0 5 km S of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  9. 2.0 9 km W of Medford, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 1 km SSE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  11. 3.6 1 km SSE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  12. 2.0 5 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 2.6 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  15. 1.7 7 km NNW of Renfrow, 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 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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