Strong earthquake 6.5 mag, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) strikes central Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bf3k. Unique identifier: us7000bf3k. The temblor was picked up at 21:20:29 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -29.8326 West, latitude 0.7691 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/08/20 / 2020-08-30 21:20:29 / August 30, 2020 @ 9:20 pm.

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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: central Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-29.8326° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.7691° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	central Mid-Atlantic Ridge	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-30 21:20:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-02 01:58:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.929	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	651	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	15.393	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us7000bf3k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bf3k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bf3k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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