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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Rangely in Colorado

Posted by admin on December 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.1286667S, -108.8258333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Rangely in Colorado on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.95 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -108.8258333° West, latitude 40.1286667° North, depth = 5.95 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:44:53 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 23:44:53 / December 12, 2017 @ 11:44 pm. Id of earthquake: uu60262062. Event ids that are associated: us2000c3p0, uu60262062.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vernal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Vernal (c. 9 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NNE of Rangely, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.8258333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1286667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNE of Rangely, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-12 23:44:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-13 19:49:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 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 150 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 uu60262062 Id of event.
Event Code 60262062 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c3p0,uu60262062, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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