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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

7 km WSW of Meeker, Oklahoma

· 6.5 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lincoln County, 25 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3679 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 35.4893, -96.9790. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lincoln County, OK 25 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pottawatomie County, OK 31 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Oklahoma County, OK 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Cleveland County, OK 44 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Seminole County, OK 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Seminole County
Okfuskee County, OK 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 7 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  3. 3.2 11 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  4. 3.5 1 km WSW of Spencer, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 8 km NW of Prague, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 1 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 1 km SE of Luther, Oklahoma
  9. 3.4 4 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 3 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  11. 2.2 1 km SSW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 1 km ESE of Choctaw, Oklahoma
  13. 2.7 3 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  14. 2.8 3 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km SW of Wellston, 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 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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