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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Trinidad in Colorado


Earthquake location 37.0324S, -104.963WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Trinidad in Colorado. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwpi. Id of event: us1000bwpi. Exact location, longitude -104.963° West, latitude 37.0324° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/17 / 2017-12-27 13:00:10 / December 27, 2017 @ 1:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:00:10 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raton, Trinidad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km WSW of Trinidad, Colorado. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km WSW 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 2017-12-27 13:00:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-27 13:20:22 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 us1000bwpi Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwpi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bwpi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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