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M 3.1ml

2 km NNE of Kremlin, Oklahoma

· 5.4 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 21 kmGrant County 24 kmAlfalfa County 49 kmNoble County 56 kmKay County 66 kmKingfisher County 70 kmMajor County 71 kmHarper County 72 kmSumner County 79 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garfield County, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3814 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 36.5700, -97.8140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Grant County, OK 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 49 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Noble County, OK 56 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kay County, OK 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Kingfisher County, OK 70 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 5 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 6 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  4. 3.5 6 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  5. 3.8 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 3 km ESE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 10 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  8. 2.9 4 km WSW of Kremlin, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 5 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 11 km SW of Wakita, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 5 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 5 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  14. 3.0 5 km SE of Garber, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 4 km W of Lucien, 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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