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M 2.5ml

Oklahoma

· 6.2 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 22 kmAlfalfa County 29 kmGarfield County 40 kmHarper County 56 kmMajor County 64 kmSumner County 76 kmNoble County 76 kmWoods County 77 kmKay County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
6.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 22 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3813 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 36.6911, -98.0013. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 22 km (14 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 29 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Garfield County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Harper County, KS 56 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Harper County
Major County, OK 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Major County
Sumner County, KS 76 km (47 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner 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. 2.8 5 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma
  2. 2.8 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  3. 1.9 5 km SW of Bluff City, KS
  4. 1.8 6 km S of Anthony, Kansas
  5. 1.9 1 km NNE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  6. 1.8 2 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 2.0 2 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  8. 2.6 7 km WSW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 4 km ENE of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 11 km E of Bluff City, Kansas
  11. 2.8 9 km S of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 2 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 2.9 7 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma
  14. 2.6 5 km NNE of Lamont, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 4 km SW of Bluff City, 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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