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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1mb_lg

3 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 6 kmDe Soto Parish 35 kmNatchitoches Parish 44 kmBienville Parish 45 kmSabine Parish 57 kmWinn Parish 69 kmWebster Parish 76 kmBossier Parish 77 kmCaddo Parish 77 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
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Red River Parish, 6 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 127 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 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 32.0463, -93.3671. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 6 km (4 mi) SSW 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 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 57 km (35 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

43 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.9 on 2026-03-05 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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