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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

3 km NW of Shawnee, Oklahoma

· 4.3 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Pottawatomie County, 16 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3147 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 35.3534, -96.9469. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Pottawatomie County, OK 16 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pottawatomie County
Cleveland County, OK 38 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Cleveland County
Seminole County, OK 38 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Seminole County
Lincoln County, OK 39 km (24 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Oklahoma County, OK 47 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County
Okfuskee County, OK 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Okfuskee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 9 km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  2. 3.4 8 km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
  3. 2.0 5 km SE of Luther, Oklahoma
  4. 2.6 7 km N of Spencer, Oklahoma
  5. 2.6 4 km ESE of Carney, Oklahoma
  6. 2.6 7 km NNW of Cromwell, Oklahoma
  7. 3.6 2 km SW of Wellston, Oklahoma
  8. 2.5 3 km NE of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 3 km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma
  10. 2.8 9 km WNW of Prague, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 4 km N of Harrah, Oklahoma
  12. 2.1 1 km SE of Choctaw, Oklahoma
  13. 2.4 8 km SSE of Sparks, Oklahoma
  14. 3.7 3 km NE of Arcadia, Oklahoma
  15. 3.2 3 km NE of Arcadia, 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 4.2 on 2016-04-07 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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