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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 4, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0789S, 40.041WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 07:00:22 / January 4, 2025 @ 7:00 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phtf. Id of event: us6000phtf. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:00:22 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.041 East, latitude 9.0789 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debre Sīna, Āsbe Teferī, Debre Birhan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.041° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0789° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NW 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 2025-01-04 07:00:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-04 07:26:16 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 3.4 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 340 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000phtf Id of event.
Event Code 6000phtf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000phtf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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