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M 2.9ml

4 km SSW of Pawnee, Oklahoma

· 5.9 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 11 kmPayne County 28 kmNoble County 39 kmOsage County 52 kmCreek County 58 kmKay County 65 kmLincoln County 66 kmLogan County 71 kmTulsa County 81 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
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Pawnee County, 11 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3782 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 36.2958, -96.8189. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 11 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 28 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Noble County, OK 39 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Osage County, OK 52 km (32 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Creek County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Kay County, OK 65 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  2. 1.7 5 km SSW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 7 km ESE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  4. 3.1 12 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 Oklahoma
  6. 3.1 4 km SSW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 5 km S of Cushing, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 4 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  10. 2.2 1 km N of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 2 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 4 km ESE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 8 km SW of Yale, Oklahoma
  14. 3.0 8 km NE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 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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