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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Mooringsport in Louisiana


Earthquake location 32.6678S, -93.967WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mooringsport in Louisiana on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000pkzk. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkzk. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 20:12:00 / January 18, 2025 @ 8:12 pm. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -93.967° West, 32.6678° North. The temblor was picked up at 20:12:00 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Shreveport (c. 199 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Longview (c. 80 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Bossier City (c. 61 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Marshall (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Minden (c. 13 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Carthage (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Longview, Mansfield, Carthage (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSW of Mooringsport, Louisiana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.6678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 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 2025-01-18 20:12:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-18 20:19:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 188 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000pkzk Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkzk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkzk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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