Overnight earthquake rumbles in Colorado mountains

Colorado earthquake US Geological Survey — Photo Credit: US Geological Survey.

BY Liz Forster

February 1, 2019

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Glenwood Springs early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake occurred just before 2 a.m. 1.18 miles below the Earth’s surface. About 23 hours earlier, a 2.2 magnitude tremor was reported a couple miles further north.

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Glenwood Springs last felt a earthquake Dec. 11 when it was hit by 3.4 and a 3.6 magnitude earthquakes within about an hour of each other.

Twenty-one other earthquakes have been reported this year in Colorado — mainly nearly Trinidad — though no others have hit about a 2.2 on the Richter scale.

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