A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. Exact location of event, longitude 39.9479 East, latitude 8.9877 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 02:10:11 / January 23, 2025 @ 2:10 am. Event id: us7000pad3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pad3. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:10:11 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wenjī, Bedēsa, Sirre (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 10 km NNE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.
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