A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Mooringsport in Louisiana on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 05:09:57 / January 6, 2025 @ 5:09 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:09:57 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -93.9155 West, latitude 32.6417 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pi49. Unique identifier: us6000pi49.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mansfield, Carthage, Minden (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (13 miles) from Shreveport (c. 199 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Bossier City (c. 61 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Marshall (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Minden (c. 13 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Carthage (c. 6 800 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km SE of Mooringsport, Louisiana.
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