Major earthquake, 7.4 mag has occurred near Ascension Island

A major earthquake magnitude 7.4 (ml/mb) strikes North of Ascension Island (0 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ascension Island (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -17.8 West, latitude 0.1 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: at00ocnltz. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ocnltz. Global time and date of event 29/08/16 / 2016-08-29 04:30:00 / August 29, 2016 @ 4:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:30:00 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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	7.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-17.8° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.1° North	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	2016-08-29 04:30:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-29 04:42:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	1	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	842	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	110	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68.399994528	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00ocnltz	Id of event.
Event Code	00ocnltz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ocnltz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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