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M 2.6mb_lg

Texas Panhandle region

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Harper County 32 kmBeaver County 42 kmClark County 55 kmLipscomb County 59 kmMeade County 61 kmEllis County 65 kmWoodward County 76 kmComanche County 82 kmSeward County 88 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Harper County, 32 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3760 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 36.7662, -100.0157. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Harper County, OK 32 km (20 mi) W of here earthquakes near Harper County
Beaver County, OK 42 km (26 mi) E of here earthquakes near Beaver County
Clark County, KS 55 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Lipscomb County, TX 59 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lipscomb County
Meade County, KS 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Meade County
Ellis County, OK 65 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Ellis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 12 km WNW of Knowles, Oklahoma
  2. 2.0 11 km NE of May, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 10 km NE of May, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 12 km NW of Knowles, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 13 km WNW of Knowles, Oklahoma
  6. 1.5 11 km WNW of Knowles, Oklahoma
  7. 2.3 13 km WNW of Knowles, Oklahoma
  8. 2.0 18 km SW of May, Oklahoma
  9. 2.9 6 km NE of Follett, Texas
  10. 1.6 5 km NW of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  11. 1.6 14 km NE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  12. 1.8 14 km SE of Buffalo, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 5 km NNE of Fort Supply, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 10 km NNE of May, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 9 km SW of Englewood, 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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