A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 10:02:56 / January 2, 2025 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.8596 East, latitude 9.3029 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:02:56 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000ph2s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ph2s.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sendafa, Gelemso, Abomsa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sendafa (c. 7 300 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km N of Metahāra, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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