A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Exact location of event, longitude -104.865 West, latitude 36.9884 North, depth = 5.93 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.93 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:16:08 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000fwa5. Unique identifier: us2000fwa5. Global time and date of event 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 21:16:08 / July 3, 2018 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raton, Trinidad (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 39 km (24 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 one and in the last 365 days nine 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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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: 38 km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado.
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