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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Alamosa East in Colorado


Earthquake location 37.641S, -105.4965WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Alamosa East in Colorado on Thursday. Event id: us1000j8pv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j8pv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.31 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:33:54 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 15:33:54 / February 28, 2019 @ 3:33 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -105.4965 West, latitude 37.641 North, depth = 5.31 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamosa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Alamosa (c. 8 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km ENE of Alamosa East, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.4965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km ENE of Alamosa East, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-28 15:33:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-28 15:51:21 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 3.838 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 200 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 0.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us1000j8pv Id of event.
Event Code 1000j8pv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j8pv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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