A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 06:51:18 / February 25, 2018 @ 6:51 am. The temblor was reported at 23:51:18 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000d7lc. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d7lc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -104.8283° West, 37.2026° North, depth 5 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raton, Trinidad. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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