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M 3.4ml

3 km WSW of Nicoma Park, Oklahoma

· 6.8 km deep · released about 1.9 tons 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 3.4 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Oklahoma County, 10 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3671 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 35.4769, -97.3543. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Oklahoma County, OK 10 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Cleveland County, OK 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Pottawatomie County, OK 47 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Logan County, OK 49 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Logan County
Lincoln County, OK 50 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
McClain County, OK 52 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near McClain County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 6 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 7 km WSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  4. 2.4 6 km W of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  5. 2.4 12 km NNW of Edmond, Oklahoma
  6. 2.8 4 km NE of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  7. 2.8 6 km NNW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  8. 2.2 5 km E of Edmond, Oklahoma
  9. 2.7 4 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  10. 2.3 7 km ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
  11. 2.1 Oklahoma
  12. 2.6 2 km WSW of Meridian, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 0 km ENE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  14. 3.2 1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  15. 2.7 1 km NE of Meridian, 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 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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