Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Dacono in Colorado

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Dacono in Colorado on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qk2g. Id of event: us6000qk2g. The temblor was reported at 12:08:20 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.9561° West, 40.0369° North, depth 8.167 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.167 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/25 / 2025-06-13 12:08:20 / June 13, 2025 @ 12:08 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Castle Rock, Wellington, The Pinery. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Denver (c. 600 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Aurora (c. 325 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Fort Collins (c. 144 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Lakewood (c. 143 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Thornton (c. 118 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 5 km SSW of Dacono, Colorado. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.9561° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.0369° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.167 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSW of Dacono, Colorado	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-13 12:08:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-13 12:19:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	131	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.484	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us6000qk2g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qk2g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qk2g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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