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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

5 km ESE of Covington, Oklahoma

· 6.7 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 26 kmNoble County 28 kmLogan County 43 kmKingfisher County 53 kmPayne County 55 kmGrant County 60 kmKay County 67 kmPawnee County 74 kmOklahoma County 83 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garfield County, 26 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3662 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 36.2929, -97.5241. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 43 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan County
Kingfisher County, OK 53 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Payne County, OK 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Grant County, OK 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Grant County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 10 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 5 km SSE of Perry, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 4 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 4 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  5. 2.7 4 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 11 km WNW of Orlando, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 7 km WSW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 1 km WSW of Douglas, Oklahoma
  9. 2.7 1 km W of Douglas, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 2 km NNW of Fairmont, Oklahoma
  11. 2.9 4 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 14 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  13. 3.1 6 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 6 km NNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  15. 3.1 14 km SSE of Billings, 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 2016-03-29 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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