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M 2.5ml

4 km WSW of Wakita, Oklahoma

· 6.6 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 19 kmAlfalfa County 35 kmHarper County 36 kmGarfield County 57 kmSumner County 59 kmKay County 74 kmBarber County 74 kmKingman County 77 kmMajor 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 19 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3806 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 36.8734, -97.9724. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 19 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 35 km (22 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Harper County, KS 36 km (22 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Garfield County, OK 57 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Sumner County, KS 59 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kay County, OK 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  2. 1.5 4 km ESE of Manchester, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 6 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas
  4. 2.6 8 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 12 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  6. 2.5 5 km SW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  7. 3.0 5 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 4 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  9. 1.6 13 km NNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  10. 2.7 10 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
  11. 2.9 4 km WSW of Kremlin, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 1.6 4 km ESE of Anthony, Kansas
  14. 1.7 4 km ESE of Anthony, Kansas
  15. 1.9 4 km ESE of Anthony, 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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