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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Trinidad in Colorado


Earthquake location 36.9762S, -104.9126WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado on Tuesday. Event id: us10006g0b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006g0b. The temblor was reported at 10:56:12 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 16:56:12 / August 23, 2016 @ 4:56 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -104.9126° West, 36.9762° North, depth 5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taos, Raton, Trinidad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Taos (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 42 km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.9126° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-23 16:56:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 17:23:27 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 4.63 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 312 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 0.433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us10006g0b Id of event.
Event Code 10006g0b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006g0b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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