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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

11 km ENE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

· 6.4 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 29 kmNatchitoches Parish 32 kmSabine Parish 35 kmDe Soto Parish 41 kmBienville Parish 65 kmSabine County 70 kmShelby County 71 kmWinn Parish 72 kmGrant Parish 83 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Red River Parish, 29 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 13 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 31.8413, -93.3956. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 32 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 41 km (25 mi) SE of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 65 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Sabine County, TX 70 km (44 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sabine County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.7 9 km NE 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 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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