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M 3.8ml

4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma

· 8.4 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 27 kmGarfield County 28 kmLogan County 41 kmPayne County 53 kmKingfisher County 53 kmGrant County 62 kmKay County 68 kmPawnee County 73 kmOklahoma County 81 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 3.8 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Noble County, 27 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2930 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 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× more

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 36.2788, -97.5072. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 27 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Garfield County, OK 28 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Logan County, OK 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 53 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Kingfisher County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Grant County, OK 62 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Grant County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  4. 3.0 0 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 4 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 3 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 5 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 10 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 0 km WNW of Bison, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 10 km W of Lamont, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 0 km NW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 0 km N of Coyle, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 0 km NW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  14. 3.4 9 km WNW of Orlando, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 0 km NNW of Coyle, 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 4.6 on 2018-04-09 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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