M 7.1 in North Of Ascension Island on 29 Aug 2016 04:29 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1092849
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.0406 , -17.8261
Event Date: 29 Aug 2016 04:29 UTC
29 Aug 2016 03:29 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Aug 2016 05:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
us20006uy6 Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2521 | About casualties: 152 | Last hour: 0

China Donates $82,000 for Renovation of Quake-Damaged Pagodas in Myanm ... Fri, 02 Sep 2016 04:21:00 +0200.

The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar and the Ruili Municipality of China's Yunnan province donated 100 million kyats (about $82,000) to Myanmar for renovation of quick-damaged pagodas in the country's Bagan. Myanmar's Minister of Religious Affair
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Big shake was complex and may have been two earthquakesFri, 02 Sep 2016 04:16:00 +0200.

Labour's Civil Defence spokeswoman Clare Curran said the delay in sending out a warning was a concern, and could have been more serious if the tsunami had been major. "That's not a direct criticism of Civil Defence, because they're dealing
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EQC discover extra 2200 remedial requests following internal reviewFri, 02 Sep 2016 04:16:00 +0200.

The Earthquake Commission has 2200 more botched repairs to sort out than it thought, after its reporting failed to pick up the extra work. Shared service general manager Gillian Dudgeon admitted the bungle on Friday afternoon. "An internal
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Leve tsunami sin consecuencias se registra tras sismo de magnitud 7.1 ... Fri, 02 Sep 2016 03:59:00 +0200.

Un fuerte sismo de magnitud 7,1 sacudió Nueva Zelanda en las primeras horas del viernes, provocando un pequeño tsunami que no dejó víctimas ni daños materiales, anunciaron las autoridades. El epicentro del terremoto se registró a las 16:37
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),