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M 2.5ml

15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma

· 10 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Canadian County 23 kmCaddo County 33 kmGrady County 44 kmBlaine County 63 kmKingfisher County 66 kmOklahoma County 67 kmMcClain County 72 kmCleveland County 74 kmWashita County 80 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Canadian County, 23 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3142 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

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 35.3709, -98.1139. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Canadian County, OK 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Canadian County
Caddo County, OK 33 km (21 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Caddo County
Grady County, OK 44 km (27 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Grady County
Blaine County, OK 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Blaine County
Kingfisher County, OK 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Oklahoma County, OK 67 km (42 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 14 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  2. 2.4 2 km NNW of Tuttle, Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  4. 3.1 15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  5. 2.9 15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  6. 2.2 4 km W of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma
  7. 2.9 12 km WSW of Union City, Oklahoma
  8. 3.1 11 km WSW of Union City, Oklahoma
  9. 2.5 11 km WSW of Union City, Oklahoma
  10. 2.7 12 km WSW of Union City, Oklahoma
  11. 2.6 15 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  12. 2.5 14 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 13 km W of Union City, Oklahoma
  14. 2.2 Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 6 km N of Union City, 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.

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