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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.8mwr

10 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma

· 6.7 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Noble County 10 kmPayne County 35 kmPawnee County 39 kmKay County 49 kmLogan County 59 kmGarfield County 59 kmOsage County 70 kmGrant County 75 kmLincoln County 77 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 3.8 (mwr)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
67 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Noble County, 10 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2383 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 67 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× 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 36.3711, -97.1250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Noble County, OK 10 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Noble County
Payne County, OK 35 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Kay County, OK 49 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kay County
Logan County, OK 59 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Logan County
Garfield County, OK 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 7 km NNE of Maramec, Oklahoma
  2. 2.6 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  3. 2.5 8 km SSW of Morrison, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 9 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 6 km WNW of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  6. 2.5 Oklahoma
  7. 3.2 9 km W of Orlando, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 10 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 10 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  10. 4.1 10 km SSE of Red Rock, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 6 km ENE of Coyle, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 9 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma
  13. 2.4 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  15. 2.9 3 km WNW of Lucien, 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 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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