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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.2038S, 40.161WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pihu. Id of event: us6000pihu. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:49:47 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/25 / 2025-01-08 00:49:47 / January 8, 2025 @ 12:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly 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). Exact location of event, longitude 40.161 East, latitude 9.2038 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abomsa, Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 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 three, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 24 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.161° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km N 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 2025-01-08 00:49:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-08 01:09:37 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 2.2 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 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.511 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000pihu Id of event.
Event Code 6000pihu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pihu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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