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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Metahāra in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on February 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8125S, 40.0164WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/25 / 2025-01-08 23:13:33 / January 8, 2025 @ 11:13 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000plad. Unique identifier: us6000plad. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.0164 East, latitude 8.8125 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:13:33 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wenjī, Nazrēt, Bedēsa. Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 14 km SE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0164° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SE of Metahāra, Ethiopia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-08 23:13:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-06 00:35:22 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000plad Id of event.
Event Code 6000plad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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