Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Metahāra in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 39.8793° East, 8.8833° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:33:03 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 00:33:03 / February 24, 2025 @ 12:33 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000px1g. Event ids that are associated: us6000px1g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Debre Birhan, Mojo, Wenjī (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km WSW of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.8793° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.8833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km WSW 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	2025-02-24 00:33:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-05 22:17:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.931	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us6000px1g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px1g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000px1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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