A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pk1q. Unique identifier: us6000pk1q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/01/25 / 2025-01-14 23:32:40 / January 14, 2025 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 39.8247° East, latitude 9.0106° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:32:40 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debre Sīna, Mojo, Sendafa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km NW of Metahāra, Ethiopia.
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