Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Āwash in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 40.0526° East, latitude 9.3002° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:31:25 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 00:31:25 / January 4, 2025 @ 12:31 am. Id of earthquake: us6000pkeq. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkeq.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa, Abomsa (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 one hundred and five, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one 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. 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: 37 km NNW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.0526° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 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	2025-01-04 00:31:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 00:38:44	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	284	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.53	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255	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	us6000pkeq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pkeq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pkeq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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