M3.4 earthquake 8 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck 8 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma on Sat, Sep 6, 2014, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC), 5 km (3 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.3 7 km SW of Danville, Kansas. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.4 (mwr), minor
- Local time
- UTC
- 2014-09-06 18:53:59 UTC
- Depth
- 5.0 km (3.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 36.636° N, 97.700° W
- Region
- Oklahoma
- Felt reports
- 7
- Strongest shaking
- IV, light shaking
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- IV, light shaking
- Map
- Automatic

Did you feel it?
7 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Strike-slip
- Moment magnitude
- 3.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 144°, dip 79°, rake 2°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 54°, dip 89°, rake 169°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 3.3 km horizontally, 7.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Station coverage gap
- 70°
- Stations used
- 0
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: at least 200 in the 60 days after this one and 176 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.58 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4405 days ago · 5 km deep · 0 km away
- 1.65 km SSW of Anthony, Kansas · 4404 days ago · 6 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.78 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4404 days ago · 5 km deep · 1 km away
- 2.71 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4404 days ago · 5 km deep · 20 km away · felt by 3
- 2.88 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4404 days ago · 5 km deep · 0 km away · felt by 4
- 2.63 km NE of Aline, Oklahoma · 4404 days ago · 6 km deep · 66 km away · felt by 3
- 3.12 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 3
- 1.60 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas · 4403 days ago · 1 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.20 km SSW of Bluff City, Kansas · 4403 days ago · 1 km deep · 51 km away
- 3.43 km E of Milan, Kansas · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 29
- 3.27 km NW of Mayfield, Kansas · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 5
- 3.91 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 51
- 3.61 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 3 km deep · 20 km away
- 1.5Kansas · 4403 days ago · 6 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.73 km NE of Morrison, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.73 km NE of Morrison, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.54 km SE of Wakita, Oklahoma · 4403 days ago · 6 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.810 km E of Bluff City, Kansas · 4402 days ago · 2 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.46 km NNW of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4402 days ago · 5 km deep · 55 km away · felt by 4
- 3.07 km N of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4402 days ago · 12 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.66 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma · 4402 days ago · 5 km deep · 5 km away
- 3.06 km SW of Glencoe, Oklahoma · 4402 days ago · 6 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 3
- 2.83 km NE of Wakita, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 5 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.312 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 8 km deep · 38 km away · felt by 3
- 2.812 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 8 km deep · 38 km away
- 1.82 km WSW of Freeport, Kansas · 4401 days ago · 4 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.612 km SE of Cedar Valley, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 5 km deep · 98 km away · felt by 6
- 2.87 km N of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 5 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.61 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 4 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.51 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 4 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.712 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4401 days ago · 9 km deep · 37 km away
- 1.69 km NW of Caldwell, Kansas · 4401 days ago · 1 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.73 km WNW of Freeport, Kansas · 4401 days ago · 3 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.012 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 7 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.54 km SSE of Glencoe, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 8 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.612 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 2 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.612 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 9 km deep · 38 km away
- 1.812 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 7 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.212 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 2 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.612 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 7 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.17 km ENE of Manchester, Oklahoma · 4400 days ago · 7 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.77 km N of Manchester, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 6 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.68 km NE of Bluff City, Kansas · 4399 days ago · 5 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.812 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 5 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.710 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 4 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 61
- 2.07 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas · 4399 days ago · 7 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.67 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas · 4399 days ago · 7 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.59 km WNW of Langston, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 5 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.65 km ESE of Wakita, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 4 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 2
- 2.112 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 3 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.52 km SSW of Morrison, Oklahoma · 4399 days ago · 8 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.912 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4398 days ago · 2 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.510 km WSW of Lamont, Oklahoma · 4398 days ago · 5 km deep · 4 km away
- 3.47 km NNW of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4398 days ago · 5 km deep · 2 km away · felt by 3
- 3.29 km SSE of Covington, Oklahoma · 4398 days ago · 3 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 3
- 3.06 km NNW of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4398 days ago · 5 km deep · 55 km away · felt by 4
- 2.810 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4397 days ago · 3 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.310 km ENE of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4397 days ago · 5 km deep · 64 km away · felt by 7
- 3.57 km N of Hillsdale, Oklahoma · 4397 days ago · 5 km deep · 25 km away · felt by 6
- 2.77 km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma · 4397 days ago · 5 km deep · 95 km away
The first 60 of at least 200.
Before
- 2.86 km WNW of Helena, Oklahoma · 4405 days ago · 5 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.55 km SSW of Anthony, Kansas · 4405 days ago · 6 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.67 km SW of Pawnee, Oklahoma · 4405 days ago · 7 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.94 km NNE of Kremlin, Oklahoma · 4405 days ago · 6 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 3
- 2.71 km NNE of Pawnee, Oklahoma · 4406 days ago · 5 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 6
- 2.66 km E of Pond Creek, Oklahoma · 4406 days ago · 5 km deep · 5 km away
- 2.59 km WSW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4406 days ago · 5 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.58 km NW of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4406 days ago · 5 km deep · 2 km away
- 2.65 km NNW of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4406 days ago · 5 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.36 km NW of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4407 days ago · 5 km deep · 55 km away · felt by 5
- 3.05 km NNW of Orlando, Oklahoma · 4407 days ago · 4 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.45 km ENE of Hunter, Oklahoma · 4407 days ago · 5 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.79 km WSW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 4408 days ago · 5 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.93 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas · 4408 days ago · 6 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.63 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas · 4408 days ago · 7 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.87 km WNW of Quay, Oklahoma · 4408 days ago · 7 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.63 km NW of Freeport, Kansas · 4408 days ago · 3 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.93 km NW of Freeport, Kansas · 4408 days ago · 3 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.63 km NW of Freeport, Kansas · 4409 days ago · 4 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.42 km WNW of Aline, Oklahoma · 4409 days ago · 4 km deep · 70 km away
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