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U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION CENTER World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

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The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:

A light earthquake occurred IN SOUTHERN COLORADO about 5 miles (10 km) west-southwest of Trinidad at 4:52 AM MDT today, Sep 5, 2001 (4:52 AM MDT in Colorado).

A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 4.5 WAS COMPUTED FOR THIS EARTHQUAKE.

The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available.

This is the largest event in a series of minor and light earthquakes which began on August 28, 2001. No damage is expected.

-- PHO (owennos@bigfoot.com), September 05, 2001

Answers

Among many other web resources, see

http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/FQHTML/cus.html

for a U.S. map with quakes from the last 14 days plotted.

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), September 05, 2001.


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