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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on December 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.3999S, 40.0826WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Tuesday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:20:48 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pgp4. Id of event: us6000pgp4. Exact location, longitude 40.0826° East, latitude 9.3999° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/24 / 2024-12-31 16:20:48 / December 31, 2024 @ 4:20 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 Āsbe Teferī, Gelemso, Debre Birhan. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 46 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0826° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km NNW 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 2024-12-31 16:20:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-31 18:15:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 285 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us6000pgp4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pgp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pgp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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