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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Greeley in Colorado


Earthquake location 40.4557S, -104.6214WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Greeley in Colorado. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.6214 West, latitude 40.4557 North, depth = 6.81 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/16 / 2016-11-06 16:57:19 / November 6, 2016 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:57:19 / 9:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007667. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007667. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.81 km (4 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berkley, Cheyenne, Westminster. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Fort Collins (c. 144 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Thornton (c. 118 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Westminster (c. 106 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Boulder (c. 97 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Greeley (c. 92 900 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km ENE of Greeley, Colorado.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.6214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of Greeley, Colorado Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-06 16:57:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-08 01:26:34 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 148 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 0.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007667 Id of event.
Event Code 10007667 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007667, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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