A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Elbert in Colorado. Exact location of earthquake, -104.6402° West, 39.1286° North, depth 7.811 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rhxs. Unique identifier: us6000rhxs. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.811 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/25 / 2025-10-17 18:51:19 / October 17, 2025 @ 6:51 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:51:19 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edgewater, Lakewood, Denver (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Denver (c. 600 200 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Colorado Springs (c. 416 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aurora (c. 325 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lakewood (c. 143 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Centennial (c. 100 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SW of Elbert, Colorado. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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