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M 2.2ml

3 km SE of Ringgold, Louisiana

· 7.6 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bienville Parish, 20 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 77 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 32.3103, -93.2512. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bienville Parish, LA 20 km (12 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bienville Parish
Red River Parish, LA 25 km (16 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Red River Parish
Webster Parish, LA 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Webster Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 54 km (33 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Bossier Parish, LA 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bossier Parish
Claiborne Parish, LA 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Claiborne Parish

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

Aftershocks so far

10 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 3.4 2 km WNW of Coushatta, Louisiana
  2. 1.9 13 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  3. 2.4 6 km NNW of Ringgold, Louisiana
  4. 1.9 3 km ENE of Jamestown, Louisiana
  5. 2.3 5 km N of Castor, Louisiana
  6. 2.1 5 km W of Edgefield, Louisiana
  7. 2.5 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  8. 1.5 15 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  9. 2.1 14 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  10. 2.3 7 km ENE of Jamestown, 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 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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