Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Mooringsport in Louisiana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mooringsport in Louisiana. Exact location of event, longitude -93.9945 West, latitude 32.6226 North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us7000p0i4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000p0i4. Global time and date of event 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 23:19:49 / December 20, 2024 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:19:49 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Shreveport (c. 199 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Longview (c. 80 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Bossier City (c. 61 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Marshall (c. 23 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Minden (c. 13 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Longview, Mansfield, Minden.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSW of Mooringsport, Louisiana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.9945° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.6226° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SSW of Mooringsport, Louisiana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-20 23:19:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-20 23:32:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	149	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.386	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000p0i4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000p0i4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p0i4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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