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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Mountain Village in Colorado

Posted by admin on December 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7873S, -108.0831WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mountain Village in Colorado on Saturday. Event id: us2000c2iw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c2iw. Exact location, longitude -108.0831° West, latitude 37.7873° North, depth = 2.68 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/17 / 2017-12-10 03:42:02 / December 10, 2017 @ 3:42 am. The temblor was detected at 20:42:02 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.68 km (2 miles).

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Durango (c. 16 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cortez (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cortez, Durango. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km SW of Mountain Village, Colorado.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.0831° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW of Mountain Village, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-10 03:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 03:58:40 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 138 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 0.671 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000c2iw Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2iw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2iw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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