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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mb_lg

2 km WNW of Coushatta, Louisiana

· 8.1 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 9 kmDe Soto Parish 35 kmNatchitoches Parish 42 kmBienville Parish 47 kmSabine Parish 54 kmWinn Parish 69 kmShelby County 78 kmCaddo Parish 79 kmWebster Parish 79 km
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 3.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
78 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Red River Parish, 9 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 11 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 78 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× more

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 32.0220, -93.3669. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 9 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 42 km (26 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 54 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Winn Parish, LA 69 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winn Parish

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

Aftershocks so far

2 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

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 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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