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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Trinidad in Colorado

Posted by admin on August 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9797S, -104.9351WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Event id: us2000a5at. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a5at. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/08/17 / 2017-08-06 03:40:33 / August 6, 2017 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -104.9351 West, latitude 36.9797 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:40:33 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raton, Trinidad (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.9351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2017-08-06 03:40:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-06 03:56:56 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 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 0.161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us2000a5at Id of event.
Event Code 2000a5at An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a5at, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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