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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Trinidad in Colorado


Earthquake location 37.2873S, -104.9211WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado on Tuesday. Event id: us1000bthl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bthl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 04:41:41 / December 20, 2017 @ 4:41 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.75 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:41:41 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.9211 West, latitude 37.2873 North, depth = 1.75 km.

Epicenter of the event was 39 km (25 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Raton, Trinidad.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 39 km WNW of Trinidad, Colorado. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.9211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WNW 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 2017-12-20 04:41:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-20 05:06:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 178 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 us1000bthl Id of event.
Event Code 1000bthl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bthl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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