A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Debre Birhan in Ethiopia. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 21:46:18 / January 6, 2025 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000pkp3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pkp3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 39.7845 East, latitude 9.4172 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:46:18 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sendafa, Abomsa, Āwash. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sendafa (c. 7 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SE of Debre Birhan, Ethiopia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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