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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Metahāra in Ethiopia


Earthquake location 8.8639S, 39.6185WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. The temblor was picked up at 01:53:07 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 01:53:07 / January 23, 2025 @ 1:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pae0. Id of event: us7000pae0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 39.6185 East, latitude 8.8639 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Debre Birhan, Huruta, Sendafa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bishoftu (c. 104 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days sixty-two, 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 33 km W of Metahāra, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.6185° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km W 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 2025-01-23 01:53:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-14 06:27:02 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 271 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us7000pae0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pae0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pae0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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