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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

5 km WNW of Quay, Oklahoma

· 4.3 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Pawnee County 17 kmPayne County 21 kmCreek County 46 kmNoble County 48 kmLincoln County 53 kmOsage County 60 kmLogan County 68 kmTulsa County 75 kmKay County 79 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Pawnee County, 17 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3482 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 36.1717, -96.7699. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pawnee County, OK 17 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Payne County, OK 21 km (13 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Creek County, OK 46 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Noble County, OK 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Lincoln County, OK 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Osage County, OK 60 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 16 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  2. 2.5 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  3. 2.9 14 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 4 km SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 3.0 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  7. 3.3 9 km SW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  8. 2.7 2 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  9. 2.6 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  11. 3.3 12 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 12 km NNE of Ripley, Oklahoma
  13. 2.6 5 km NNW of Maramec, Oklahoma
  14. 2.9 6 km N of Maramec, Oklahoma
  15. 3.1 6 km N of Maramec, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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