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M 2.2mb_lg

13 km NW of Edgefield, Louisiana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 9 kmDe Soto Parish 29 kmBienville Parish 45 kmNatchitoches Parish 55 kmSabine Parish 63 kmCaddo Parish 66 kmBossier Parish 66 kmWebster Parish 69 kmShelby County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Red River Parish, 9 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 128 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 32.1216, -93.4441. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 9 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 29 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 63 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Caddo Parish, LA 66 km (41 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

47 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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