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M 3.5ml

5 km WSW of Aline, Oklahoma

· 14 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Major County 20 kmAlfalfa County 31 kmWoods County 42 kmGarfield County 65 kmBlaine County 68 kmWoodward County 69 kmGrant County 72 kmDewey County 73 kmKingfisher County 79 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 3.5 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Major County, 20 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3751 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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× more

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 36.4876, -98.5033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Major County, OK 20 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Major County
Alfalfa County, OK 31 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Woods County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Woods County
Garfield County, OK 65 km (40 mi) W of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Blaine County, OK 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Woodward County, OK 69 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Woodward County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 8 km S of Byron, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 8 km S of Byron, Oklahoma
  3. 2.8 5 km NNE of Ames, Oklahoma
  4. 2.7 8 km WNW of Jet, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 7 km WNW of Jet, Oklahoma
  6. 3.5 7 km WNW of Jet, Oklahoma
  7. 3.2 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 17 km ESE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  9. 2.8 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 9 km NE of Quinlan, Oklahoma
  11. 3.7 17 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 2 km NNW of Aline, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 16 km SE of Waynoka, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 12 km WSW of Carmen, Oklahoma
  15. 2.9 9 km NE of Quinlan, 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 5.1 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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