Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 20 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p9vj. Id of event: us7000p9vj. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.774 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 23:26:19 / January 19, 2025 @ 11:26 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.1407 East, latitude 9.1649 North, depth = 9.774 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:26:19 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). 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 Abomsa, Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop). Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.1407° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.1649° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.774 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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	2025-01-19 23:26:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-29 22:21:11	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.468	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 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	us7000p9vj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000p9vj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p9vj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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