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M 3.0ml

8 km W of Quay, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 18 kmPawnee County 19 kmNoble County 46 kmCreek County 48 kmLincoln County 52 kmOsage County 62 kmLogan County 65 kmTulsa County 78 kmKay County 78 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
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 18 km WSW
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 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 36.1673, -96.8051. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 18 km (11 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Noble County, OK 46 km (28 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Creek County, OK 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Lincoln County, OK 52 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Osage County, OK 62 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 8 km E of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  2. 3.5 8 km ENE of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  3. 3.0 6 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 4 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 4 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  6. 3.1 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  7. 3.0 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  8. 2.9 7 km E of Marland, Oklahoma
  9. 3.2 7 km ESE of Marland, Oklahoma
  10. 2.5 2 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 2 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 2 km SSW of Carney, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 5 km SSW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 7 km ESE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  15. 2.7 7 km NNW of Carney, 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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