Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Gelemso in Ethiopia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Gelemso in Ethiopia. Exact location of event, longitude 40.2719 East, latitude 8.2877 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000plld. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000plld. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/25 / 2025-01-10 00:15:50 / January 10, 2025 @ 12:15 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:15:50 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bedēsa, Sirre, Metahāra (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sirre (c. 10 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 64 km SSW of Gelemso, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.2719° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.2877° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64 km SSW of Gelemso, Ethiopia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-10 00:15:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-03 03:41:14	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	298	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.101	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us6000plld	Id of event.
Event Code	6000plld	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000plld,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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