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Shreveport, Louisiana – Residents near the Louisiana–Texas border felt shaking early Thursday morning after a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck northwest of Shreveport, briefly rattling communities across parts of northwest Louisiana and northeast Texas.
The earthquake occurred around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, with the epicenter located just northwest of the small community of Edgefield, Louisiana, roughly south of Shreveport and near the Texas state line. The quake originated about 5 kilometers beneath the surface, making it shallow enough to be felt across a wider portion of the region…