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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on February 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.1686S, 40.1978WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Friday. 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). The temblor was detected at 09:57:24 / 9:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/25 / 2025-02-07 09:57:24 / February 7, 2025 @ 9:57 am. Exact location of event, longitude 40.1978 East, latitude 9.1686 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pc2k. Id of event: us7000pc2k.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hīrna, Abomsa, Debre Birhan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Hīrna (c. 12 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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

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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: 20 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1978° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2025-02-07 09:57:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-07 10:17:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 356 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000pc2k Id of event.
Event Code 7000pc2k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pc2k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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