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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

8 km NNE of Mooreland, Oklahoma

· 4.4 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Woodward County 13 kmWoods County 37 kmHarper County 54 kmEllis County 60 kmMajor County 61 kmDewey County 61 kmComanche County 75 kmAlfalfa County 80 kmBarber County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Woodward County, 13 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

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

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 36.5090, -99.1757. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Woodward County, OK 13 km (8 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Woodward County
Woods County, OK 37 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Woods County
Harper County, OK 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Ellis County, OK 60 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Major County, OK 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Major County
Dewey County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dewey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 9 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 8 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  3. 2.4 14 km SSE of Freedom, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  6. 3.2 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 17 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  8. 3.6 16 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 14 km SSE of Freedom, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 14 km SSE of Freedom, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 9 km SW of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 23 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 6 km WSW of Chester, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 15 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 15 km SSW of Freedom, 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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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