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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2mb_lg

4 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma

· 5.0 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Payne County 18 kmLincoln County 32 kmPawnee County 38 kmCreek County 40 kmLogan County 58 kmNoble County 59 kmOklahoma County 72 kmOkfuskee County 72 kmTulsa County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Payne County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2608 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 35.9835, -96.8119. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Payne County, OK 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Payne County
Lincoln County, OK 32 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Pawnee County, OK 38 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Pawnee County
Creek County, OK 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Creek County
Logan County, OK 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Logan County
Noble County, OK 59 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Noble County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 3 km SE of Carney, OK
  2. 2.0 2 km SE of Carney, Oklahoma
  3. 2.3 2 km WNW of Coyle, Oklahoma
  4. 2.5 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  5. 1.8 6 km WSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  6. 2.1 5 km WSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  7. 2.1 5 km WSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  8. 1.9 5 km WSW of Langston, Oklahoma
  9. 2.0 10 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma
  10. 2.5 8 km S of Shamrock, Oklahoma
  11. 1.7 2 km NE of Cushing, Oklahoma
  12. 1.6 14 km NNE of Morrison, Oklahoma
  13. 1.5 4 km E of Drumright, Oklahoma
  14. 2.0 5 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma
  15. 1.6 14 km NW of Pawnee, 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 5.0 on 2016-11-07 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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