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M 3.2ml

5 km SW of Braman, Oklahoma

· 8.2 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kay County 23 kmGrant County 38 kmSumner County 40 kmNoble County 58 kmCowley County 62 kmGarfield County 67 kmHarper County 69 kmAlfalfa County 85 kmSedgwick County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kay County, 23 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3700 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 36.8911, -97.3867. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kay County, OK 23 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Grant County, OK 38 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Sumner County, KS 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Noble County, OK 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Cowley County, KS 62 km (38 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cowley County
Garfield County, OK 67 km (42 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 8 km W of Deer Creek, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 5 km ENE of Mayfield, Kansas
  5. 3.1 4 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  6. 1.8 5 km ENE of Mayfield, Kansas
  7. 2.5 5 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  8. 2.9 5 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 7 km ESE of Marland, Oklahoma
  10. 2.0 Kansas
  11. 3.0 4 km SSE of Braman, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 5 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  13. 1.6 10 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  14. 2.7 10 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas
  15. 1.9 7 km SSE of Argonia, Kansas

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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