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M 2.9ml

13 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma

· 7.4 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 12 kmGarfield County 39 kmKay County 47 kmPayne County 52 kmGrant County 55 kmLogan County 58 kmPawnee County 61 kmKingfisher County 74 kmOsage 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Noble County, 12 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3761 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 36.4270, -97.3600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 12 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Garfield County, OK 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Kay County, OK 47 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Payne County, OK 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Grant County, OK 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Logan County, OK 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan 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. 2.7 2 km NNW of Lamont, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 8 km ESE of Pond Creek, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 5 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 4 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  5. 2.2 1 km N of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 3 km ESE of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 4 km ESE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 8 km ESE of Lucien, Oklahoma
  10. 3.0 8 km NE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  11. 2.8 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 9 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 10 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 3.4 8 km NE of Marshall, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 8 km NE of Marshall, 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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