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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

9 km W of Medford, Oklahoma

· 5.6 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 5 kmAlfalfa County 43 kmHarper County 47 kmGarfield County 48 kmSumner County 57 kmKay County 62 kmNoble County 72 kmMajor County 83 kmKingman 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Grant County, 5 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 36.8039, -97.8442. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, OK 5 km (3 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Alfalfa County, OK 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Alfalfa County
Harper County, KS 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Harper County
Garfield County, OK 48 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Sumner County, KS 57 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sumner County
Kay County, OK 62 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kay County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7 km E of Caldwell, Kansas
  2. 1.6 2 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  3. 2.1 2 km W of Freeport, Kansas
  4. 1.7 6 km NW of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  5. 2.9 4 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 7 km S of Argonia, Kansas
  7. 2.5 Kansas
  8. 3.5 7 km E of Freeport, Kansas
  9. 2.5 1 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma
  10. 2.1 2 km N of Anthony, Kansas
  11. 2.3 7 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
  12. 2.7 1 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas
  13. 1.6 7 km ESE of Freeport, Kansas
  14. 2.6 1 km SE of Renfrow, Oklahoma
  15. 2.6 7 km NNW of Lamont, 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 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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