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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

1 km NE of Meridian, Oklahoma

· 5.4 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 21 kmPayne County 35 kmLincoln County 36 kmOklahoma County 37 kmNoble County 59 kmKingfisher County 64 kmPawnee County 71 kmCleveland County 72 kmCanadian County 75 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
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 21 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3655 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 35.8519, -97.2366. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Payne County, OK 35 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 36 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Oklahoma County, OK 37 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Noble County, OK 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kingfisher County, OK 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 4 km NE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  2. 3.4 4 km E of Luther, Oklahoma
  3. 3.1 3 km NE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  4. 1.5 3 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  5. 2.2 1 km SSW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 1 km ESE of Choctaw, Oklahoma
  7. 2.4 10 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 5 km SSE of Perry, Oklahoma
  9. 3.3 6 km SW of Yale, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 11 km WNW of Orlando, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 3 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  12. 2.8 3 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 3 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  14. 2.4 2 km SSW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 2 km SSW 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 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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