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M 3.6ml

2 km NW of Deer Creek, Oklahoma

· 9.0 km deep · released about 3.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 22 kmKay County 36 kmSumner County 46 kmGarfield County 54 kmNoble County 56 kmHarper County 62 kmAlfalfa County 70 kmCowley County 78 kmPawnee County 95 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 3.6 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Grant County, 22 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3554 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 3.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.9× 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 36.8215, -97.5453. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 22 km (14 mi) E of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 36 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Garfield County, OK 54 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Harper County, KS 62 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Harper County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 4 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  2. 1.8 4 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  3. 1.8 8 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  4. 1.6 4 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  5. 2.3 4 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  6. 2.7 6 km NE of Billings, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 7 km NE of Billings, Oklahoma
  8. 3.2 7 km NE of Billings, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 6 km NE of Billings, Oklahoma
  10. 3.1 6 km NE of Billings, Oklahoma
  11. 1.8 5 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas
  12. 2.2 9 km ESE of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 3.0 8 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 5 km SE of Freeport, Kansas
  15. 2.9 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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