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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Metahāra in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on February 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8566S, 39.9826WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pmli. Id of event: us6000pmli. The earthquake was roughly 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). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:58:22 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 39.9826 East, latitude 8.8566 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/25 / 2025-01-17 17:58:22 / January 17, 2025 @ 5:58 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Sirre (c. 10 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wenjī, Bedēsa, Nazrēt.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of Metahāra, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.9826° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8566° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ESE 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 2025-01-17 17:58:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-11 22:41:36 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 312 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 1.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us6000pmli Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmli An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmli, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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