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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

1 km E of Fairmont, Oklahoma

· 7.0 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 10 kmNoble County 40 kmGrant County 49 kmKingfisher County 51 kmLogan County 54 kmKay County 70 kmAlfalfa County 70 kmPayne County 71 kmMajor County 77 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garfield County, 10 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2787 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 36.3583, -97.6845. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Noble County
Grant County, OK 49 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kingfisher County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Logan County, OK 54 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Kay County, OK 70 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 2.9 6 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 Oklahoma
  4. 1.9 5 km N of Ames, Oklahoma
  5. 2.2 2 km SSE of Meno, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 9 km ESE of Perry, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 13 km ESE of Dover, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 12 km SSE of Perry, Oklahoma
  9. 2.0 4 km SE of Meno, Oklahoma
  10. 3.2 3 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  12. 2.4 9 km W of Orlando, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 9 km SSE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  14. 2.6 5 km WSW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 1 km N of Goltry, 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 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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