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Seismometer Network

Earthquake damage: to interior adobe walls of residence, Trinidad, Colorado, August 2011. Photo credit: T.C. Wait for the CGS.

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Earthquake case study

The Trinidad, Colorado Earthquakes

Around midnight on August 22, 2011, Colorado experienced its largest earthquake in half a century. The earthquake was quickly relegated to obscurity by the 5.8 earthquake that occurred about 12 hours later in Virginia.

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Trimble Ref-Tek 151-30 Broadband Seismometer in subsurface housing, Briggsdale, Colorado, May 2016. Photo credit: Mike Bornowski for the CGS.

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Seismometer case study

CGS seismometer array

The CGS seismic network acts in conjunction with those maintained by the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), and the US Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)—to provide near real-time earthquake detection.

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