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M 3.1mb_lg

3 km NNW of Edgefield, Louisiana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 3 kmDe Soto Parish 37 kmBienville Parish 42 kmNatchitoches Parish 46 kmSabine Parish 60 kmWinn Parish 69 kmWebster Parish 73 kmBossier Parish 74 kmCaddo Parish 75 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 3.1 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
21 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Red River Parish, 3 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 170 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 21 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 32.0742, -93.3510. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 3 km (2 mi) S of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 46 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 60 km (38 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Winn Parish, LA 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winn Parish

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

Aftershocks so far

52 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.

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