Oklahoma’s 2022 Earthquake Count lowest in cover a decade – FOX23 News

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma isn’t any stranger to small earthquakes. Small fault strains riddle the state and are sometimes the focal factors for tremors, most of which aren’t felt by us. The previous decade introduced us a big surge in these earthquakes, lots of which had been felt. A number of of the most important tremors even precipitated some harm in components of the state.

Last yr introduced us solely 78 earthquakes with a magnitude 2.5 or better. This was the lowest rely of those earthquakes since 2009 when solely 33 earthquakes on the magnitude or better had been detected. There has been a gradual decline in the variety of these earthquakes since 2019. Most of our latest earthquakes have occurred In north-central, central and southeast components of the state.

The strongest earthquake final yr occurred close to Medford, Okla. in the northern a part of the state with a 4.5 magnitude. Recent years had related power earthquakes in varied components of the state. The largest earthquake measured occurred in 2016 close to Pawnee, Okla. at a 5.8 magnitude. Since 2016, our state has not seen a magnitude 5.0 earthquake or better.

So far in 2023 — as of Jan. 10 — no earthquakes at or above 2.5 magnitude have occurred.

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