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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 46 km NW of Parachute, Colorado

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Parachute in Colorado. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/18 / 2018-08-24 10:02:37 / August 24, 2018 @ 10:02 am. Id of earthquake: us1000ggmk. Event ids that are associated: us1000ggmk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.3986 West, latitude 39.7697 North, depth = 5.27 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.27 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:02:37 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orchard Mesa, Grand Junction, Redlands. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Grand Junction (c. 58 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Clifton (c. 19 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fruita (c. 12 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Redlands (c. 8 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fruitvale (c. 7 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 46 km NW of Parachute, Colorado.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-108.3986° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.7697° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km NW of Parachute, Colorado	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-24 10:02:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-24 10:23:17	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	4.51	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	284	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	0.384	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000ggmk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ggmk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ggmk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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