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M 2.7ml

7 km N of Cushing, Oklahoma

· 4.8 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 19 kmPawnee County 30 kmCreek County 39 kmLincoln County 40 kmNoble County 56 kmLogan County 63 kmOsage County 71 kmTulsa County 75 kmOkfuskee County 76 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 19 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3685 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 36.0514, -96.7701. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 19 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 30 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 39 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Lincoln County, OK 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Noble County, OK 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 63 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Logan 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. 2.6 Oklahoma
  2. 3.0 3 km WNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  3. 2.4 8 km S of Perry, Oklahoma
  4. 3.6 9 km NW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 3 km WNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  6. 2.9 9 km E of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  7. 2.3 4 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 7 km WNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  9. 2.7 6 km WNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  10. 2.6 0 km NNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 0 km NNE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 2 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 7 km S of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 3.1 4 km ENE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 9 km SW of Stillwater, 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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