Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 11 km NNE of Metahāra, Ethiopia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000plrr. Unique identifier: us6000plrr. The temblor was picked up at 05:22:53 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.9601 East, latitude 8.9934 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 05:22:53 / January 23, 2025 @ 5:22 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mojo, Āsbe Teferī, Debre Sīna (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NNE of Metahāra, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.9601° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.9934° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km NNE 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	2025-01-23 05:22:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-23 05:37:53	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	369	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.798	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us6000plrr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000plrr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000plrr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

39.9601° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

8.9934° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

11 km NNE 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

2025-01-23 05:22:53

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-01-23 05:37:53

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

3.798

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.54 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000plrr

Id of event.

Event Code

6000plrr

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000plrr,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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