Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Weston in Colorado

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Weston in Colorado. Unique identifier: us7000mxwe. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mxwe. Exact location, longitude -104.8441° West, latitude 36.96° North, depth = 1.917 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.917 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 20:35:34 / July 8, 2024 @ 8:35 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:35:34 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trinidad, Raton. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 19 km S of Weston, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.8441° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.96° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km S of Weston, Colorado	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-08 20:35:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-08 20:48:41	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	138	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us7000mxwe	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mxwe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mxwe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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