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M 2.8ml

5 km NNW of Glencoe, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 22 kmPawnee County 22 kmNoble County 29 kmLogan County 61 kmOsage County 61 kmKay County 62 kmLincoln County 64 kmCreek County 65 kmGarfield County 77 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 22 km S
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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 36.2769, -96.9415. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 22 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 22 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Noble County, OK 29 km (18 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Osage County, OK 61 km (38 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Kay County, OK 62 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 7 km E of Marland, Oklahoma
  2. 3.2 7 km ESE of Marland, Oklahoma
  3. 2.8 3 km E of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 2 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 7 km ESE of Lucien, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 2 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  7. 1.7 5 km SSW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 7 km ESE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  9. 2.7 7 km NNW of Carney, Oklahoma
  10. 3.1 12 km NNW of Perry, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 Oklahoma
  12. 3.1 4 km SSW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 8 km WNW of Orlando, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 5 km S of Cushing, 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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