Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 01:46:35 / January 2, 2025 @ 1:46 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:46:35 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 40.116 East, latitude 8.9634 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pgzb. Event ids that are associated: us6000pgzb.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa, Gelemso.

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 eighteen, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WSW of Āwash, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.116° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.9634° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km WSW 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 01:46:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-03 01:44:54	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	260	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	us6000pgzb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pgzb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pgzb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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