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Strong earthquake 6.8 mag, North of Ascension Island

Posted by admin on August 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.1025S, -13.6558WA earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was reported North of Ascension Island (0 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/17 / 2017-08-18 02:59:22 / August 18, 2017 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -13.6558° West, latitude -1.1025° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ascension Island (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt17230000, at00ouv1mw, us2000a98r. Unique identifier: us2000a98r. The temblor was reported at 01:59:22 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: North of Ascension Island.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -13.6558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.1025° 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 2017-08-18 02:59:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-18 03:20:37 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 0 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 711 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 ,pt,at,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 6.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000a98r Id of event.
Event Code 2000a98r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17230000,at00ouv1mw,us2000a98r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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