Brief by Central Staff
Geology – September 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
There’s drought, and there’s wildfire, and if that doesn’t give you enough to worry about, consider earthquakes.
Not that there have been any hereabouts lately — the most recent on record was in the Nathrop area at 2:55 p.m. on March 16, 1985. It registered 3.3 on the Richter Scale (just enough to be noticed without instruments) and caused no known damage; it was felt in Salida.
