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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

5 km WSW of Quay, Oklahoma

· 8.1 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 20 kmPawnee County 20 kmCreek County 44 kmNoble County 49 kmLincoln County 50 kmOsage County 62 kmLogan County 66 kmTulsa County 75 kmKay County 82 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Payne County, 20 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2719 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 36.1448, -96.7724. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 20 km (12 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Pawnee County, OK 20 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Noble County, OK 49 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Noble County
Lincoln County, OK 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Osage County, OK 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Osage County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 8 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma
  3. 1.6 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  4. 1.8 3 km WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma
  5. 1.9 3 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  6. 3.4 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  8. 1.6 4 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  10. 1.6 1 km WNW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 10 km NE of Kendrick, Oklahoma
  12. 1.9 10 km SSE of Perry, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 9 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 1.9 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma
  15. 2.2 4 km W of Cushing, 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 5.8 on 2016-09-03 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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