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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5mb_lg

6 km E of Guthrie, Oklahoma

· 8.2 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 10 kmOklahoma County 36 kmPayne County 41 kmLincoln County 47 kmKingfisher County 53 kmNoble County 58 kmCanadian County 67 kmGarfield County 68 kmCleveland County 74 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 2.5 (mb_lg)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 10 km WNW
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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 35.8736, -97.3529. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Oklahoma County, OK 36 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Payne County, OK 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Kingfisher County, OK 53 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Noble County, OK 58 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Noble 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. 3.2 3 km NNE of Nicoma Park, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 Oklahoma
  3. 3.4 5 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  4. 3.4 3 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 7 km N of Spencer, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 8 km ESE of Lucien, Oklahoma
  7. 3.0 8 km NE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 Oklahoma
  9. 3.0 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 4 km SW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 4 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  13. 3.7 5 km W of Fallis, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 7 km ENE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  15. 3.0 7 km ENE of Harrah, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2016-01-01 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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