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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0388S, 40.1467WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ph9m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph9m. Exact location, longitude 40.1467° East, latitude 9.0388° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:28:58 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 17:28:58 / January 2, 2025 @ 5:28 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debre Sīna, Debre Birhan, Āsbe Teferī (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 6 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1467° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 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 2025-01-02 17:28:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 17:47:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 370 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000ph9m Id of event.
Event Code 6000ph9m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ph9m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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