Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Segundo in Colorado

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Segundo in Colorado. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d21t. Unique identifier: us6000d21t. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -104.8224° West, 36.9177° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/12/20 / 2020-12-23 00:04:58 / December 23, 2020 @ 12:04 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:04:58 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trinidad, Raton (min 5000 pop).

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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.8224° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9177° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-23 00:04:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-23 00:12:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	168	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	0.12	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us6000d21t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d21t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d21t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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