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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

12 km WSW of Quay, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 13 kmPawnee County 24 kmNoble County 45 kmLincoln County 48 kmCreek County 49 kmLogan County 60 kmOsage County 67 kmKay County 80 kmTulsa County 81 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 13 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3390 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 36.1347, -96.8427. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 13 km (8 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 24 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Noble County, OK 45 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Lincoln County, OK 48 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Creek County, OK 49 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Logan County, OK 60 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Logan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 10 km WSW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  2. 2.2 5 km SE of Meridian, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 7 km SW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 9 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 14 km WSW of Ralston, Oklahoma
  6. 2.7 2 km SSW of Agra, Oklahoma
  7. 2.2 8 km NE of Kendrick, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 1 km SW of Agra, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 6 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 6 km SW of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  12. 3.1 9 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  13. 2.9 5 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 4 km NNE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 9 km E of Perry, 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 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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