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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

12 km S of Cedar Valley, Oklahoma

· 8.7 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 19 kmOklahoma County 25 kmKingfisher County 42 kmCanadian County 46 kmLincoln County 59 kmPayne County 62 kmCleveland County 64 kmGarfield County 73 kmNoble County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 19 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2986 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 35.7543, -97.5361. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Oklahoma County, OK 25 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Kingfisher County, OK 42 km (26 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Canadian County, OK 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Lincoln County, OK 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Payne County, OK 62 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Payne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 5 km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 5 km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  3. 3.0 5 km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 5 km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  5. 3.1 5 km E of Edmond, Oklahoma
  6. 2.8 13 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  7. 3.5 6 km NNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  8. 3.0 10 km E of Dover, Oklahoma
  9. 3.2 6 km NNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 5 km NNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  11. 2.9 6 km NNW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 3 km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma
  13. 3.2 5 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  14. 2.6 10 km SE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 10 km SE of Marshall, 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 4.2 on 2016-04-07 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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