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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 15:31:00 / January 2, 2025 @ 3:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:31:00 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph6e. Id of event: us6000ph6e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 40.1989° East, latitude 9.1396° North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna, Āsbe Teferī. Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km NNE of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.1989° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.1396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km NNE 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	2025-01-02 15:31:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-02 15:51:07	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	312	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.526	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us6000ph6e	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ph6e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ph6e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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