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M 3.9ml

13 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma

· 6.6 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 22 kmNoble County 32 kmPayne County 41 kmKay County 47 kmOsage County 47 kmCreek County 75 kmLogan County 77 kmGarfield County 81 kmLincoln County 82 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 3.9 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Pawnee County, 22 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1516 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 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 36.4428, -96.8883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 22 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Noble County, OK 32 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 41 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Payne County
Kay County, OK 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kay County
Osage County, OK 47 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Osage County
Creek County, OK 75 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 7 km WSW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 14 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  3. 3.1 6 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 6 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  5. 3.1 14 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  6. 2.3 6 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  7. 3.1 14 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 6 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 9 km W of Quay, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 13 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 3 km WNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 4 km WNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 Oklahoma
  14. 3.0 3 km WNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  15. 2.4 8 km S of Perry, 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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