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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

2 km NE of Kendrick, Oklahoma

· 7.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lincoln County 15 kmCreek County 36 kmPayne County 37 kmOkfuskee County 54 kmPawnee County 57 kmLogan County 63 kmOklahoma County 65 kmPottawatomie County 68 kmSeminole County 73 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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lincoln County, 15 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2930 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

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 35.7999, -96.7607. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 15 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Creek County, OK 36 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Payne County, OK 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Okfuskee County, OK 54 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County
Pawnee County, OK 57 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Logan County, OK 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Logan 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. 2.3 9 km SSE of Sparks, Oklahoma
  2. 2.1 7 km E of Carney, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 6 km E of Carney, Oklahoma
  4. 2.7 1 km WNW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  5. 2.4 1 km WNW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  6. 2.2 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 2 km ENE of Fallis, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 5 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma
  9. 2.2 9 km SSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 1 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 9 km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  12. 3.4 8 km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 5 km WSW of Quay, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 11 km NE of Kendrick, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 5 km SE of Luther, 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 5.0 on 2016-11-07 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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