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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Paonia in Colorado


Earthquake location 38.8937S, -107.4039WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Paonia in Colorado. Exact location, longitude -107.4039° West, latitude 38.8937° North, depth = 3.12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/18 / 2018-09-02 21:09:12 / September 2, 2018 @ 9:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:09:12 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.12 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000h6y1. Event ids that are associated: us2000h6y1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Montrose. Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Montrose (c. 19 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Delta (c. 8 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 16 km E of Paonia, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.4039° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Paonia, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-02 21:09:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-02 22:43:23 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 0.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 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 us2000h6y1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000h6y1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h6y1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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