A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 39.9411° East, latitude 8.9452° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000ph3w. Event ids that are associated: us6000ph3w. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 09:56:34 / January 2, 2025 @ 9:56 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:56:34 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Debre Birhan, Bedēsa, Wenjī. Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five 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.
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