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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 20 km NNW of Metahāra, Ethiopia

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Earthquake location 9.0813S, 39.8621WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/25 / 2025-01-05 04:33:21 / January 5, 2025 @ 4:33 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:33:21 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.8621 East, latitude 9.0813 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pkgh. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkgh.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wenjī, Sirre, Sendafa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop).

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

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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: 20 km NNW of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.8621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NNW 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 2025-01-05 04:33:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-23 02:13:20 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 298 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.183 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us6000pkgh Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkgh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkgh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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