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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Ascension Island

Posted by admin on August 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.8067S, -16.0234WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported North of Ascension Island (0 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 05:58:53 / August 26, 2015 @ 5:58 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034yr. Id of event: us100034yr. Exact location of event, longitude -16.0234 West, latitude -0.8067 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:58:53 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: North of Ascension Island.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -16.0234° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.8067° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place North of Ascension Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-26 05:58:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-26 06:27:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 13.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100034yr Id of event.
Event Code 100034yr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034yr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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