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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Rangely in Colorado


Earthquake location 40.1328333S, -108.8123333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Rangely in Colorado on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60254782. Id of event: uu60254782. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/17 / 2017-10-26 17:37:01 / October 26, 2017 @ 5:37 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.8123333 West, latitude 40.1328333 North, depth = 10.61 km. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:37:01 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.61 km (7 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Vernal (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vernal (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km N of Rangely, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.8123333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1328333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N of Rangely, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-26 17:37:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-26 18:00:17 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 124 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 uu60254782 Id of event.
Event Code 60254782 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60254782, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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