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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 27 km NW of Āwash, Ethiopia


Earthquake location 9.1781S, 40.0113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 20:33:10 / December 30, 2024 @ 8:33 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:33:10 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pgjf. Unique identifier: us6000pgjf. Exact location of earthquake, 40.0113° East, 9.1781° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa, Abomsa. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km NW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km NW of Āwash, Ethiopia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-30 20:33:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-30 20:50:14 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 326 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 us6000pgjf Id of event.
Event Code 6000pgjf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pgjf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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