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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Debre Sīna in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on December 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7973S, 39.875WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Debre Sīna in Ethiopia. Exact location, longitude 39.875° East, latitude 9.7973° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pg2n. Id of event: us6000pg2n. The temblor was picked up at 01:32:58 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/24 / 2024-12-28 01:32:58 / December 28, 2024 @ 1:32 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Gewanē (c. 11 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gewanē, Debre Birhan, Abomsa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km ESE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km ESE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-28 01:32:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-28 01:58:20 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 298 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000pg2n Id of event.
Event Code 6000pg2n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pg2n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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