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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.1397S, 40.1242WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 40.1242° East, latitude 9.1397° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pli7. Event ids that are associated: us6000pli7. 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). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:44:49 / 9:44 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/25 / 2025-01-21 21:44:49 / January 21, 2025 @ 9:44 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abomsa, Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna. Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 17 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1397° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NNW 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 2025-01-21 21:44:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-21 22:03:45 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 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.58 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000pli7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pli7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pli7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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