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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

2 km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma

· 3.5 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 20 kmLincoln County 35 kmPawnee County 35 kmCreek County 37 kmNoble County 59 kmLogan County 62 kmOkfuskee County 72 kmTulsa County 76 kmOklahoma County 76 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
16 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Payne County, 20 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3489 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 16 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 36.0054, -96.7755. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pawnee County, OK 35 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Noble County, OK 59 km (37 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Logan County, OK 62 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Logan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 7 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  2. 2.7 2 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  3. 2.6 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  5. 3.3 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 12 km NNE of Ripley, Oklahoma
  7. 2.6 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  8. 2.9 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  9. 3.1 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  11. 2.7 1 km WSW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 1 km SW of Langston, Oklahoma
  13. 2.8 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  14. 1.8 4 km E of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  15. 3.4 12 km NW of Pawnee, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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