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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.2002S, 40.1835WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkft. Id of event: us6000pkft. Exact location of earthquake, 40.1835° East, 9.2002° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 07:01:05 / January 4, 2025 @ 7:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:01:05 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abomsa, Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1835° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km N 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 2025-01-04 07:01:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-23 08:30:25 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.516 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 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 us6000pkft Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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