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


Earthquake location 37.658S, -108.1102WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Mountain Village in Colorado on Saturday. Unique identifier: us2000c2im. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c2im. Exact location of event, longitude -108.1102 West, latitude 37.658 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/17 / 2017-12-10 03:09:28 / December 10, 2017 @ 3:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:09:28 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cortez, Durango (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Durango (c. 16 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Cortez (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km SW of Mountain Village, Colorado. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.1102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 03:09:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 03:25:45 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 1.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us2000c2im Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2im An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2im, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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