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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Debre Sīna in Ethiopia


Earthquake location 9.493S, 40.0816WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Debre Sīna in Ethiopia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 00:12:05 / February 24, 2025 @ 12:12 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:12:05 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000pfss. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pfss. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 40.0816° East, 9.493° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gelemso, Metahāra, Debre Birhan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 52 km SE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0816° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km SE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-24 00:12:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-24 21:44:13 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 284 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000pfss Id of event.
Event Code 7000pfss An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pfss, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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