July 5, 2005

BLUE RIDGE AREA

 

The Blue Ridge area of Arizona, southeast of Flagstaff was the site of a M3.2 earthquake on July 1, 2005 at 10:41am local time. No felt reports have been received by the Arizona Earthquake Information Center. The tremor was recorded by the northern Arizona network of seismograph stations (see illustration below) and was located at 34.732N x 111.00W. This epicenter is in the same area as continuing activity that began on January 28, 2005 with a M4.0 event and culminated with a M4.6 tremor that was widely felt throughout northern and central Arizona.

The preliminary data are as follows: