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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

3 km NW of Fairmont, Oklahoma

· 6.6 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 6 kmNoble County 44 kmGrant County 46 kmKingfisher County 51 kmLogan County 57 kmAlfalfa County 66 kmKay County 71 kmMajor County 73 kmPayne County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Garfield County, 6 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3189 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 36.3781, -97.7256. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, OK 6 km (4 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Noble County, OK 44 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Noble County
Grant County, OK 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kingfisher County, OK 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Logan County, OK 57 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Logan County
Alfalfa County, OK 66 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  2. 2.1 3 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 4 km NNW of North Enid, Oklahoma
  4. 2.9 3 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 10 km ESE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 10 km ESE of Hennessey, Oklahoma
  7. 3.5 2 km SE of Meno, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 2 km SSE of Meno, Oklahoma
  9. 2.4 1 km NE of Dover, Oklahoma
  10. 2.9 5 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma
  11. 3.5 4 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 9 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma
  13. 2.3 5 km N of Dover, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 5 km S of Dover, OK
  15. 2.8 6 km N of Dover, 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 4.3 on 2017-09-08 — 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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