Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Paonia in Colorado

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Paonia in Colorado. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/16 / 2016-07-24 04:47:27 / July 24, 2016 @ 4:47 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:47:27 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20006h6j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006h6j. Exact location of event, longitude -107.5346 West, latitude 38.9129 North, depth = 1 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Clifton (c. 19 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Montrose (c. 19 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Delta (c. 8 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clifton, Glenwood Springs, Rifle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NE of Paonia, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-107.5346° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9129° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NE 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	2016-07-24 04:47:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-26 22:26:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	188	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	0.51	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	us20006h6j	Id of event.
Event Code	20006h6j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006h6j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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