re: Does Louisiana get little earthquakes?

Several years ago I visited the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) out in Livingston Parish. See LIGO to better understand the research.

When I visited their control room, one of the monitors that is used to detect changes in the laser had been shut off for a short period of time before I arrived. They explained that they have to shut off the monitor when there are earthquakes.

That took the visitors by surprise due to the fact, as Louisianians, we never feel earthquakes. They elaborated further that LA experiences hundreds to a thousand quakes a year, typically daily, but that we never feel them because of our soft soil. Most are small and virtually imperceptible to us because of our soil conditions. However, their laser monitors easily pick them up.

Thus, the simple answer to the question is yes, but we don't feel them.