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M 3.3ml

4 km SW of Yale, Oklahoma

· 4.6 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 21 kmPawnee County 25 kmCreek County 38 kmLincoln County 45 kmNoble County 55 kmOsage County 66 kmLogan County 67 kmTulsa County 72 kmOkfuskee 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Payne County, 21 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 36.0902, -96.7369. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 21 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 25 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 38 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Lincoln County, OK 45 km (28 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Noble County, OK 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Osage County, OK 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 7 km W of Maramec, Oklahoma
  2. 3.3 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 2.2 5 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.2 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 2.4 5 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 3.0 6 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 4 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  8. 2.6 4 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  9. 3.1 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  10. 3.0 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 2 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  12. 1.7 2 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 2 km SSW of Carney, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 5 km SSW of Cushing, 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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