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M 2.7mb_lg

3 km N of Ringgold, Louisiana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bienville Parish 22 kmRed River Parish 29 kmWebster Parish 42 kmBossier Parish 50 kmDe Soto Parish 55 kmClaiborne Parish 59 kmCaddo Parish 62 kmLincoln Parish 64 kmJackson Parish 68 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bienville Parish, 22 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 816 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 32.3583, -93.2787. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bienville Parish, LA 22 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Red River Parish, LA 29 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
Webster Parish, LA 42 km (26 mi) S of here earthquakes near Webster Parish
Bossier Parish, LA 50 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bossier Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 55 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Claiborne Parish, LA 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Claiborne Parish

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 2 km WNW of Coushatta, Louisiana
  2. 1.9 13 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  3. 2.4 6 km NNW of Ringgold, Louisiana
  4. 1.9 3 km ENE of Jamestown, Louisiana
  5. 2.3 5 km N of Castor, Louisiana
  6. 2.1 5 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  7. 2.5 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  8. 1.5 15 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  9. 2.1 14 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  10. 2.3 7 km ENE of Jamestown, Louisiana
  11. 2.2 3 km SE of Ringgold, Louisiana
  12. 2.1 16 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  13. 1.9 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  14. 2.5 4 km NW of Coushatta, Louisiana
  15. 2.4 17 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana

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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