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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

6 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma

· 6.3 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 12 kmSumner County 46 kmKay County 48 kmHarper County 51 kmGarfield County 53 kmAlfalfa County 59 kmNoble County 65 kmCowley County 86 kmKingman County 89 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 12 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2837 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 36.8490, -97.6782. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 12 km (7 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 46 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kay County, OK 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County
Harper County, KS 51 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Garfield County, OK 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Alfalfa County, OK 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa 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. 2.5 Kansas
  2. 1.5 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 2.0 6 km N of Medford, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 2 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 6 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  6. 2.3 7 km NE of South Haven, Kansas
  7. 2.3 5 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  8. 2.5 3 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  9. 3.1 8 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  10. 1.7 5 km NW of Caldwell, Kansas
  11. 2.4 4 km NE of South Haven, Kansas
  12. 2.4 5 km NE of South Haven, Kansas
  13. 4.0 4 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas
  14. 2.5 6 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma
  15. 2.9 2 km ENE of Medford, 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 4.4 on 2018-06-09 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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