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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.3248S, 40.1013WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. The temblor was reported at 01:01:43 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 01:01:43 / January 24, 2025 @ 1:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000plyr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000plyr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.1013 East, latitude 9.3248 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bedēsa, Āsbe Teferī, Abomsa. Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. 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: 38 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1013° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 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 2025-01-24 01:01:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-24 01:41:55 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us6000plyr Id of event.
Event Code 6000plyr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plyr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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