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M 2.9ml

7 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma

· 5.6 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 11 kmGarfield County 45 kmKay County 46 kmSumner County 54 kmNoble County 57 kmHarper County 59 kmAlfalfa County 59 kmCowley County 90 kmMajor County 94 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 11 km W
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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 36.7701, -97.6615. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 11 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Grant County
Garfield County, OK 45 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Kay County, OK 46 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 54 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Noble County, OK 57 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Harper County, KS 59 km (37 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 7 km SSE of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 3.4 2 km NW of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 11 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  4. 3.0 1 km NE of Jet, Oklahoma
  5. 3.0 8 km SW of Hunter, Oklahoma
  6. 1.6 9 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 1.7 5 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  8. 2.9 5 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  9. 1.7 6 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  10. 2.9 7 km SSE of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 10 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  12. 1.6 8 km S of Anthony, Kansas
  13. 1.7 4 km SW of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 3.1 4 km SE of Jet, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km N of Nash, 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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