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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has hit southern Colorado near the New Mexico border. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., says the quake hit at about 5:30 p.m. Monday. The epicenter was 11 miles southwest of Cokedale, Colo.
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On the National Earthquake Information Center's web page, earthquake.usgs.gov, 268 Colorado Springs residents reported that they felt tremors from Trinidad. The largest number of reports Monday and Tuesday, totalling 45, were in the 80906 ZIP code area, just west of the Broadmoor Golf Course.
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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has hit southern Colorado near the New Mexico border. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., says the quake hit at about 5:30 p.m. Monday. The epicenter was 11 miles southwest of Cokedale, Colo.
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A minor earthquake in Montgomery County rumbled across the region early yesterday morning, and it was felt in north and west county, including Jessup, Gambrills, Glen Burnie, Millersville, Hanover, Brooklyn Park and Pasadena. The U.S. Geological Survey collected reports from throughout the county from the 3.6 magnitude quake that was centered near Germantown and Rockville at 5:04 a.m. yesterday, said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
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State and local officials are trying to find the source of a tremor in Logan County on Saturday morning that was likely related to coal mining activity. The event, first reported as a 2.9 magnitude earthquake outside Man, is no longer being considered an earthquake, said John Bellini, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.
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MEXICO CITY - A powerful earthquake Monday shook fishing villages along Mexico's Gulf of California, prompting alarm as far away as Phoenix, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center said the 6.9- magnitude quake struck at 12:59 p.m. (1:59 EDT, 17:59 GMT) and was centered 76 miles (122 kilometers) north-northeast of Santa Isabel in Baja California and 331 miles (533 kilometers) southeast of the border city of Tijuana.
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- Southern California residents got a jolt Monday when a 5.7- magnitude earthquake struck at 9:26 p.m. The epicenter was located five miles southeast of Ocotillo in California, said Richard Buckmaster, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. He said it is an aftershock of the 7.2-magnitude Baja California, Mexico quake that hit April 4.
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Some 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti. The USNS Comfort arrived at the island on Wednesday. The hospital ship is providing more beds for injured earthquake victims as well as a place to perform several much-needed surgeries. Experts from the USGS National Earthquake Information Center said that when large earthquakes happen, aftershocks occur because a fault line is readjusting.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Two back-to-back earthquakes have struck about 200 miles off the Oregon coast. The National Earthquake Information Center based out of Golden, Colo., says there's been no damage and no threat of a tsunami from Monday's quakes.
