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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Pueblo in Colorado

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1524S, -104.8066WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pueblo in Colorado on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 07:12:31 / August 24, 2016 @ 7:12 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006g9n. Id of event: us10006g9n. Exact location of earthquake, -104.8066° West, 38.1524° North, depth 2.53 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:12:31 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.53 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Colorado Springs (c. 416 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Pueblo (c. 106 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Security-Widefield (c. 32 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Pueblo West (c. 29 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Fountain (c. 25 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colorado Springs, Stratmoor, Security-Widefield. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 20 km WSW of Pueblo, Colorado.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.8066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km WSW of Pueblo, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 07:12:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 18:27:39 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 129 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 0.683 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10006g9n Id of event.
Event Code 10006g9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006g9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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