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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 16 km SW of Āwash, Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8713S, 40.0732WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Event id: us6000pjx5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pjx5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 40.0732° East, 8.8713° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 14/01/25 / 2025-01-14 14:55:57 / January 14, 2025 @ 2:55 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:55:57 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wenjī, Nazrēt, Āsbe Teferī.

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 three, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 16 km SW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0732° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SW 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 2025-01-14 14:55:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-14 15:35:24 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 369 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 121 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.799 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 89 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 us6000pjx5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjx5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjx5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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