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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

2 km E of Choctaw, Oklahoma

· 7.2 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Oklahoma County 17 kmCleveland County 33 kmLincoln County 40 kmPottawatomie County 40 kmLogan County 51 kmMcClain County 56 kmCanadian County 67 kmSeminole County 69 kmPayne County 69 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Oklahoma County, 17 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1516 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 35.4938, -97.2371. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oklahoma County, OK 17 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Cleveland County, OK 33 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Lincoln County, OK 40 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pottawatomie County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Logan County, OK 51 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Logan County
McClain County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near McClain County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 3 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  7. 3.1 7 km ENE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 4 km S of Meridian, Oklahoma
  9. 3.4 3 km WSW of Nicoma Park, Oklahoma
  10. 2.0 3 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 2 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 7 km W of Meeker, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 3 km S of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 3.1 4 km S of Meridian, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 3 km E of Luther, 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 4.2 on 2016-04-07 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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