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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near New Castle in Colorado


Earthquake location 39.5471S, -107.5792WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from New Castle in Colorado. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:59 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -107.5792° West, latitude 39.5471° North, depth = 2.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007mu0. Id of event: us10007mu0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/16 / 2016-12-26 06:14:59 / December 26, 2016 @ 6:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.2 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Eagle (c. 6 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Gypsum (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aspen, Eagle, Gypsum.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 4 km SW of New Castle, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.5792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of New Castle, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-26 06:14:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-26 09:03:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 129 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 0.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us10007mu0 Id of event.
Event Code 10007mu0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mu0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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