Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Carbondale in Colorado

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Carbondale in Colorado. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:08:14 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007ubh. Id of event: us10007ubh. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 03:08:14 / January 20, 2017 @ 3:08 am. Exact location of event, longitude -107.2713 West, latitude 39.1492 North, depth = 4.39 km.

The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Eagle (c. 6 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Gypsum (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gunnison, Eagle, Gypsum. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.

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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: 28 km S of Carbondale, Colorado.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-107.2713° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1492° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km S of Carbondale, Colorado	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-20 03:08:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-20 15:15:21	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	121	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	0.232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us10007ubh	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ubh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ubh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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