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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia


Earthquake location 8.9596S, 40.3151WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Unique identifier: us6000pgep. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pgep. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 00:28:54 / December 30, 2024 @ 12:28 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:28:54 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.3151 East, latitude 8.9596 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hīrna, Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa. Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Hīrna (c. 12 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km E of Āwash, Ethiopia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.3151° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.9596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km E 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 00:28:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-31 03:43:52 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000pgep Id of event.
Event Code 6000pgep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pgep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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