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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 24 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 31, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.2064S, 40.1581WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Sunday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:38:44 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 20:38:44 / January 19, 2025 @ 8:38 pm. 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). Exact location, longitude 40.1581° East, latitude 9.2064° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000p9vl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p9vl.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abomsa, Debre Birhan, Debre Sīna.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 24 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 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 20:38:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-31 15:14:00 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.493 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 118 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 us7000p9vl Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9vl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9vl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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