M2.4 earthquake 10 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake struck 10 km E of Nescatunga, Oklahoma on Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:42 AM CST (09:42 UTC), 5 km (3 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.0 4 km ESE of Meno, Oklahoma. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.4 (mb_lg), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-01-02 09:42:51 UTC
- Depth
- 5.0 km (3.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 36.762° N, 98.040° W
- Region
- Oklahoma
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was II, weak shaking.

How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 0.8 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.15
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 93°
- Stations used
- 38
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 79 in the 60 days after this one and 39 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.08 km NNW of Meno, Oklahoma · 2821 days ago · 5 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.34 km SSW of Conway Springs, Kansas · 2821 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.219 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma · 2820 days ago · 5 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.77 km SE of Harper, Kansas · 2820 days ago · 6 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.28 km NE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2819 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.18 km NE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2819 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.04 km ESE of Meno, Oklahoma · 2818 days ago · 5 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 6
- 1.93 km SE of Ringwood, Oklahoma · 2818 days ago · 5 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.92 km ENE of Medford, Oklahoma · 2816 days ago · 6 km deep · 30 km away · felt by 7
- 2.38 km SW of Goltry, Oklahoma · 2816 days ago · 5 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.56 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma · 2810 days ago · 7 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.64 km ENE of Douglas, Oklahoma · 2810 days ago · 5 km deep · 66 km away · felt by 154
- 2.31 km ENE of Douglas, Oklahoma · 2809 days ago · 5 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.98 km NE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2809 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away · felt by 66
- 2.77 km NNE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2809 days ago · 2 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 7
- 4.04 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas · 2808 days ago · 5 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 474
- 2.45 km NE of South Haven, Kansas · 2808 days ago · 5 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.44 km NE of South Haven, Kansas · 2808 days ago · 5 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.75 km NW of Caldwell, Kansas · 2807 days ago · 5 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.18 km W of Bluff City, Kansas · 2807 days ago · 10 km deep · 35 km away · felt by 5
- 2.53 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas · 2807 days ago · 5 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.35 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas · 2807 days ago · 7 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.37 km NE of South Haven, Kansas · 2807 days ago · 5 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 1.66 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas · 2806 days ago · 5 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.211 km SSE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2806 days ago · 4 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.04 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma · 2806 days ago · 5 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.42 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 2805 days ago · 7 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.411 km SSE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2804 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.14 km NW of Chester, Oklahoma · 2804 days ago · 5 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.06 km N of Medford, Oklahoma · 2804 days ago · 2 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.53 km E of Freeport, Kansas · 2803 days ago · 4 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.5Kansas · 2803 days ago · 5 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 1
- 2.25 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2803 days ago · 5 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 1
- 3.34 km ESE of Meno, Oklahoma · 2803 days ago · 5 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 8
- 2.46 km NNE of Quinlan, Oklahoma · 2802 days ago · 5 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.02 km NW of Jet, Oklahoma · 2799 days ago · 5 km deep · 17 km away
- 2.48 km NNE of Marshall, Oklahoma · 2798 days ago · 5 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 1
- 3.33 km ENE of South Haven, Kansas · 2798 days ago · 4 km deep · 69 km away · felt by 8
- 1.67 km N of Argonia, Kansas · 2798 days ago · 5 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.37 km NE of Caldwell, Kansas · 2795 days ago · 11 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.310 km SSE of Waldron, Kansas · 2795 days ago · 5 km deep · 20 km away · felt by 1
- 2.35 km N of Ames, Oklahoma · 2793 days ago · 5 km deep · 54 km away · felt by 1
- 2.38 km SW of Goltry, Oklahoma · 2792 days ago · 5 km deep · 35 km away · felt by 2
- 2.11 km ESE of Hazelton, Kansas · 2792 days ago · 5 km deep · 47 km away · felt by 3
- 2.55 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma · 2791 days ago · 5 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 1
- 2.39 km ESE of Bison, Oklahoma · 2789 days ago · 4 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.84 km WNW of Danville, Kansas · 2788 days ago · 6 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.57 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas · 2786 days ago · 8 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.96 km NNE of Cherokee, Oklahoma · 2785 days ago · 4 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.51 km N of Goltry, Oklahoma · 2785 days ago · 6 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.65 km WSW of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2784 days ago · 9 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.39 km ENE of Carmen, Oklahoma · 2784 days ago · 5 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.27 km N of Wakita, Oklahoma · 2782 days ago · 6 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.34 km NE of Medford, Oklahoma · 2782 days ago · 3 km deep · 31 km away
- 1.83 km E of Freeport, Kansas · 2782 days ago · 4 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.63 km ENE of Freeport, Kansas · 2782 days ago · 4 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.92 km SSE of Bluff City, Kansas · 2781 days ago · 9 km deep · 36 km away
- 1.55 km W of South Haven, Kansas · 2779 days ago · 5 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.86 km WNW of Renfrow, Oklahoma · 2777 days ago · 3 km deep · 36 km away
- 1.57 km ENE of Bluff City, Kansas · 2777 days ago · 2 km deep · 45 km away
The first 60 of 79.
Before
- 2.32 km ESE of Hennessey, Oklahoma · 2822 days ago · 2 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.62 km SE of Hennessey, OK · 2822 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 3
- 1.612 km SSW of Milan, Kansas · 2823 days ago · 2 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.26 km ESE of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma · 2825 days ago · 6 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.05 km ESE of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma · 2825 days ago · 6 km deep · 51 km away
- 3.03 km ESE of Hennessey, Oklahoma · 2826 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 8
- 3.15 km ESE of Cleo Springs, Oklahoma · 2827 days ago · 5 km deep · 52 km away · felt by 6
- 1.92 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma · 2829 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.65 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2829 days ago · 5 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 1.91 km NW of Freeport, Kansas · 2831 days ago · 2 km deep · 52 km away
- 3.10 km SE of Wakita, Oklahoma · 2832 days ago · 7 km deep · 17 km away
- 2.44 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2833 days ago · 3 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 2.55 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma · 2836 days ago · 5 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.66 km NW of Goltry, Oklahoma · 2837 days ago · 7 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.412 km W of Belle Plaine, Kansas · 2837 days ago · 15 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.016 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma · 2838 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 5
- 1.66 km NE of Anthony, Kansas · 2838 days ago · 4 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.55 km W of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2839 days ago · 5 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 1
- 3.05 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma · 2839 days ago · 5 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 3
- 3.117 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma · 2840 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 2
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000izsx. Read Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC.