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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

5 km NW of Braman, Oklahoma

· 8.1 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kay County 26 kmSumner County 32 kmGrant County 41 kmCowley County 57 kmNoble County 65 kmHarper County 66 kmGarfield County 74 kmSedgwick County 81 kmAlfalfa County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kay County, 26 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3030 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 36.9598, -97.3764. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kay County, OK 26 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 32 km (20 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 57 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Noble County, OK 65 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Noble County
Harper County, KS 66 km (41 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

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

  1. 2.8 4 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  2. 1.6 7 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 1.5 7 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 2.0 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  5. 1.5 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  6. 1.7 9 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  7. 2.8 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  8. 1.7 9 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  9. 1.9 4 km WSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  10. 2.8 7 km SSW of Conway Springs, Kansas
  11. 3.0 3 km NE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 2 km NE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 2 km NE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  14. 2.3 2 km NE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  15. 3.0 2 km NE 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 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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