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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

10 km N of Deer Creek, Oklahoma

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 27 kmKay County 34 kmSumner County 38 kmHarper County 58 kmNoble County 62 kmGarfield County 63 kmCowley County 71 kmAlfalfa County 74 kmSedgwick County 87 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
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Grant County, 27 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3161 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 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 36.8999, -97.5166. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 27 km (17 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Kay County, OK 34 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kay County
Sumner County, KS 38 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Harper County, KS 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Noble County, OK 62 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Garfield County, OK 63 km (39 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Garfield County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 2 km SSE of Freeport, Kansas
  2. 2.3 2 km SSE of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 3.1 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  4. 2.8 7 km N of Nardin, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 0 km W of Wakita, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 5 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas
  7. 2.6 4 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  8. 1.6 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  9. 2.4 1 km S of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  10. 2.2 3 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  11. 1.5 9 km W of Bluff City, Kansas
  12. 2.8 1 km S of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 7 km ENE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  14. 1.6 8 km WSW of Hunnewell, Kansas
  15. 2.0 10 km N of Caldwell, Kansas

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 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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