A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Sīrē in Ethiopia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.8921 East, latitude 8.4312 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 12:20:00 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 12:20:00 / December 30, 2024 @ 12:20 pm. Unique identifier: us6000pghc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pghc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mojo, Gelemso, Nazrēt. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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