Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ethiopia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Ethiopia kilometers (0 miles) from Ethiopia. Event id: us60007ld4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ld4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 39.8762 East, latitude 10.5658 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:19:59 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 03:19:59 / January 20, 2020 @ 3:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gewanē, Debre Sīna, Batī (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (43 miles) from Desē (c. 136 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kombolcha (c. 93 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Kemisē (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Batī (c. 19 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Gewanē (c. 11 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.8762° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.5658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Ethiopia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-20 03:19:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-04 03:51:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	312	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	2.036	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us60007ld4	Id of event.
Event Code	60007ld4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007ld4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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