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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

11 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Red River Parish, 14 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 95 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 32.0195, -93.4683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 14 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 26 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 52 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 54 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Shelby County, TX 69 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Shelby County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 9 km NE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana
  2. 2.6 11 km ENE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana
  3. 3.4 2 km WNW of Coushatta, Louisiana
  4. 1.9 13 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  5. 2.4 6 km NNW of Ringgold, Louisiana
  6. 1.9 3 km ENE of Jamestown, Louisiana
  7. 2.3 5 km N of Castor, Louisiana
  8. 2.1 5 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  9. 2.5 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  10. 1.5 15 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  11. 2.1 14 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  12. 2.3 7 km ENE of Jamestown, Louisiana
  13. 2.2 3 km SE of Ringgold, Louisiana
  14. 2.1 16 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  15. 1.9 15 km E 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.9 on 2026-03-05 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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