A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Unique identifier: us100034xa. Ids that are associated to the event: us100034xa. Global time and date of event 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 23:08:32 / August 25, 2015 @ 11:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 17:08:32 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -104.9271° West, 37.1514° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Raton, Trinidad. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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