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M 3.5ml

1 km NW of Skedee, Oklahoma

· 7.0 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 8 kmOsage County 38 kmPayne County 41 kmNoble County 47 kmKay County 61 kmCreek County 61 kmTulsa County 76 kmLincoln County 78 kmWashington County 80 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 3.5 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Pawnee County, 8 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3817 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× more

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 36.3879, -96.7162. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 8 km (5 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Osage County, OK 38 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Payne County, OK 41 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 47 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kay County, OK 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Creek County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Creek County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 10 km ENE of Perry, Oklahoma
  2. 2.9 5 km W of Morrison, Oklahoma
  3. 3.0 5 km W of Morrison, Oklahoma
  4. 2.3 5 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  7. 2.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  8. 3.0 7 km NNE of Perkins, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 5 km NNW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 5 km SE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 5 km SE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 11 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  13. 2.1 0 km NNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  14. 2.6 0 km NNE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  15. 3.3 7 km WNW of Quay, 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.

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