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M 2.7ml

7 km NW of Wakita, Oklahoma

· 3.9 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 23 kmHarper County 30 kmAlfalfa County 37 kmSumner County 56 kmGarfield County 63 kmBarber County 70 kmKingman County 72 kmKay County 76 kmWoods 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
3.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 23 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3818 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 36.9219, -97.9882. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 23 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Harper County, KS 30 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Alfalfa County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Sumner County, KS 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Barber County, KS 70 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barber County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  2. 1.5 3 km SW of Anthony, Kansas
  3. 2.5 9 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 3 km N of Lambert, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 4 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 1.7 2 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 1.7 12 km NE of Wakita, Oklahoma
  9. 2.6 8 km NNE of Nash, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 5 km SSW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  11. 1.5 10 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  12. 1.9 2 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 3.1 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 1.9 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  15. 1.7 6 km WSW of South Haven, Kansas

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.

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