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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

14 km ENE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Red River Parish 24 kmNatchitoches Parish 33 kmDe Soto Parish 39 kmSabine Parish 40 kmBienville Parish 60 kmWinn Parish 70 kmShelby County 73 kmSabine County 75 kmGrant Parish 84 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Red River Parish, 24 km N
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 31.8841, -93.3830. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Red River Parish, LA 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
Natchitoches Parish, LA 33 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Natchitoches Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 39 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Sabine Parish, LA 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
Bienville Parish, LA 60 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Winn Parish, LA 70 km (44 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

30 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. 2.1 5 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  6. 2.5 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  7. 1.5 15 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  8. 2.1 14 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  9. 2.2 3 km SE of Ringgold, Louisiana
  10. 2.1 16 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  11. 1.9 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  12. 2.5 4 km NW of Coushatta, Louisiana
  13. 2.4 17 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  14. 2.1 3 km NW of Edgefield, Louisiana
  15. 2.0 12 km W of Coushatta, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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