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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Metahāra in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.9228S, 40.0287WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. Unique identifier: us6000pkfl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pkfl. Global time and date of event 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 22:53:59 / January 4, 2025 @ 10:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:53:59 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 40.0287 East, latitude 8.9228 North, depth = 10 km. 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).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Āsbe Teferī, Nazrēt, Sirre (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sirre (c. 10 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 12 km ENE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.9228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ENE of Metahāra, 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 22:53:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-17 06:10:37 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us6000pkfl Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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