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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 26 km SSE of Abomsa, Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Abomsa in Ethiopia on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 40.0356 East, latitude 9.7506 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:43:17 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000pg3w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pg3w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/24 / 2024-12-28 07:43:17 / December 28, 2024 @ 7:43 am.

The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Gewanē (c. 11 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Metahāra, Āwash, Gewanē (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km SSE of Abomsa, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.0356° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.7506° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SSE of Abomsa, 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 07:43:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-29 05:30:30	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.281	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us6000pg3w	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pg3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pg3w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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