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M 3.0ml

7 km NNE of Perkins, Oklahoma

· 6.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 5 kmLincoln County 40 kmPawnee County 41 kmLogan County 42 kmNoble County 43 kmCreek County 59 kmOklahoma County 65 kmGarfield County 79 kmKingfisher County 84 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 5 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3754 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 36.0430, -97.0097. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 5 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pawnee County, OK 41 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Logan County, OK 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Noble County, OK 43 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Creek County, OK 59 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 4 km SW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  3. 2.9 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  4. 3.7 5 km W of Fallis, Oklahoma
  5. 3.0 1 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  7. 3.6 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 2 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 10 km NW of Perry, Oklahoma
  11. 2.1 1 km NW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  12. 3.0 14 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 10 km NNW of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  14. 3.3 4 km SW of Yale, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 5 km SSE of Cushing, 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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