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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7mb_lg

15 km SE of Wilson, Oklahoma

· 16 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Love County 13 kmCarter County 23 kmCooke County 47 kmJefferson County 47 kmMarshall County 52 kmMurray County 54 kmMontague County 55 kmStephens County 68 kmJohnston County 69 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 2.7 (mb_lg)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Love County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2693 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 34.0506, -97.3307. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Love County, OK 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Love County
Carter County, OK 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Carter County
Cooke County, TX 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cooke County
Jefferson County, OK 47 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Marshall County, OK 52 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Marshall County
Murray County, OK 54 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Murray 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. 1.7 7 km WNW of Marietta, Oklahoma
  2. 1.9 14 km W of Marietta, Oklahoma
  3. 2.1 15 km W of Marietta, Oklahoma
  4. 1.7 13 km W of Marietta, Oklahoma
  5. 1.7 16 km ESE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  6. 1.9 5 km NW of Marietta, Oklahoma
  7. 2.5 14 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 8 km WSW of Davis, Oklahoma
  9. 1.5 14 km ENE of Leon, Oklahoma
  10. 1.5 13 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  11. 2.5 13 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  12. 2.0 13 km NE of Leon, Oklahoma
  13. 1.9 12 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  14. 2.7 12 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  15. 2.0 14 km SSE of Tatums, 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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