Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pleasant Hill in Louisiana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pleasant Hill in Louisiana. The temblor was reported at 12:47:51 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000rl22. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rl22. Exact location of event, longitude -93.469 West, latitude 31.8616 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/25 / 2025-12-27 12:47:51 / December 27, 2025 @ 12:47 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Bossier City (c. 61 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Natchitoches (c. 18 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Center (c. 5 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mansfield (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bossier City, Center, Natchitoches (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.469° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.8616° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-27 12:47:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-27 13:16:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	130	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	0.77	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us7000rl22	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rl22	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rl22,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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