A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Rangely in Colorado. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:42:00 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 07:42:00 / May 3, 2017 @ 7:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.8341667 West, latitude 40.1043333 North, depth = 6 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60195627. Id of event: uu60195627.
Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Vernal (c. 9 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vernal. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NW of Rangely, Colorado. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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