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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Glenwood Springs in Colorado


Earthquake location 39.5699S, -107.3117WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Glenwood Springs in Colorado. The temblor was detected at 03:02:29 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -107.3117° West, 39.5699° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/18 / 2018-12-11 10:02:29 / December 11, 2018 @ 10:02 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us2000isgx. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000isgx.

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Edwards (c. 10 300 pop), 2 km (2 miles) from Glenwood Springs (c. 9 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Rifle (c. 9 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Aspen (c. 6 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Eagle (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vail, Avon, Edwards.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 2 km NNE of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This data 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 -107.3117° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNE of Glenwood Springs, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-11 10:02:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-11 11:35:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 182 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 0.911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000isgx Id of event.
Event Code 2000isgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000isgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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