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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3mb_lg

5 km ESE of Pond Creek, Oklahoma

· 5.1 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 16 kmGarfield County 30 kmAlfalfa County 53 kmNoble County 54 kmKay County 56 kmHarper County 67 kmSumner County 69 kmKingfisher County 80 kmMajor County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Grant County, 16 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2780 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 36.6491, -97.7409. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 16 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Garfield County, OK 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Alfalfa County, OK 53 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Noble County, OK 54 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kay County, OK 56 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Harper County, KS 67 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 3 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  3. 3.2 0 km SE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  4. 2.2 0 km ENE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  5. 3.8 0 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 2.4 4 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma
  7. 1.8 6 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 2 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas
  9. 2.3 4 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma
  10. 2.2 7 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 5 km WSW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 1 km N of Goltry, Oklahoma
  13. 2.3 8 km SW of Goltry, Oklahoma
  14. 2.3 10 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas
  15. 2.0 2 km NW of Jet, 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 2018-04-07 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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