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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Āwash in Ethiopia

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Earthquake location 9.2086S, 40.0655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/24 / 2024-12-27 18:57:59 / December 27, 2024 @ 6:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.0655 East, latitude 9.2086 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 18:57:59 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pin4. Unique identifier: us6000pin4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Āsbe Teferī, Abomsa, Bedēsa. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven 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. 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: 27 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0655° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 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 2024-12-27 18:57:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-22 21:51:30 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 284 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000pin4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pin4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pin4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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