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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

14 km SSE of Wilson, Oklahoma

· 7.7 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Love County 16 kmCarter County 26 kmJefferson County 42 kmCooke County 47 kmMontague County 50 kmMarshall County 57 kmMurray County 58 kmStephens County 66 kmJohnston County 74 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Love County, 16 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2656 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 34.0320, -97.3875. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Love County, OK 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Love County
Carter County, OK 26 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Carter County
Jefferson County, OK 42 km (26 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Cooke County, TX 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cooke County
Montague County, TX 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Montague County
Marshall County, OK 57 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Marshall County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 12 km NE of Healdton, Oklahoma
  2. 1.8 9 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma
  3. 1.7 12 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  4. 1.6 14 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  5. 1.6 9 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  6. 1.7 17 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  7. 1.9 15 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  8. 1.7 10 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  9. 1.6 8 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  10. 1.7 11 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  11. 2.2 11 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 8 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  13. 1.7 10 km SE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  14. 1.7 9 km SSE of Tatums, Oklahoma
  15. 1.9 11 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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