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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Paonia in Colorado


Earthquake location 38.91S, -107.4744WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Paonia in Colorado. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100040m7. Id of event: us100040m7. Exact location of event, longitude -107.4744 West, latitude 38.91 North, depth = 1.01 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:22:34 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 03:22:34 / November 24, 2015 @ 3:22 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.01 km (1 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Montrose (c. 19 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Delta (c. 8 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Aspen.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km ENE of Paonia, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.4744° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.91° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ENE of Paonia, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-24 03:22:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 02:47:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 158 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type rock burst Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100040m7 Id of event.
Event Code 100040m7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040m7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

2 Comments

  1. Gary

    Slept through it, but noticed lots of pictures hanging on the wall had to be straightened.

  2. Brian

    Which mine, operating or closed, bounced?

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