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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Trinidad in Colorado


Earthquake location 37.1059S, -104.928WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Id of earthquake: us100033ki. Event ids that are associated: us100033ki. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:14:09 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/15 / 2015-08-20 05:14:09 / August 20, 2015 @ 5:14 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -104.928° West, 37.1059° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Alamosa (c. 8 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamosa, Raton, Trinidad.

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km W of Trinidad, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.928° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km W of Trinidad, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-20 05:14:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 05:36:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 272 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 0.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us100033ki Id of event.
Event Code 100033ki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033ki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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