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M 4.9mwr

2026 Red River Parish, Louisiana Earthquake

· 2.5 km deep · released about 340 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 7 kmDe Soto Parish 31 kmBienville Parish 47 kmNatchitoches Parish 48 kmSabine Parish 57 kmCaddo Parish 73 kmBossier Parish 74 kmWinn Parish 74 kmWebster Parish 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.9 (mwr)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
1576 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Red River Parish, 7 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1576 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× 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 32.0614, -93.4128. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 7 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 31 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 57 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Caddo Parish, LA 73 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Caddo Parish

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

Aftershocks so far

45 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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