Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Āwash in Ethiopia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/01/25 / 2025-01-15 00:22:52 / January 15, 2025 @ 12:22 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 40.1523° East, 9.0549° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:22:52 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pm3f. Event ids that are associated: us6000pm3f.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa, Gelemso (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.1523° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.0549° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 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	2025-01-15 00:22:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 01:11:27	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	271	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.617	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us6000pm3f	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pm3f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pm3f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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