Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Metahāra in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pae3. Unique identifier: us7000pae3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.9658 East, latitude 8.5169 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 04:16:53 / January 23, 2025 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:16:53 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mojo, Huruta, Nazrēt.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days sixty-four, 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km S of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.9658° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.5169° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km S 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 04:16:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-14 22:53:00	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.326	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	146	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	us7000pae3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pae3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pae3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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