Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Colorado City in Arizona

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Colorado City in Arizona. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/16 / 2016-07-05 04:10:21 / July 5, 2016 @ 4:10 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.69 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:10:21 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -112.9095° West, 36.9731667° North, depth 17.69 km. Id of earthquake: uu60154867. Event ids that are associated: nn00550544, uu60154867.

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ivins, Santa Clara, Saint George.

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. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km ESE of Colorado City, Arizona.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.9095° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9731667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ESE of Colorado City, Arizona	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-05 04:10:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-05 21:51:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	135	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uu	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uu60154867	Id of event.
Event Code	60154867	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00550544,uu60154867,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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