Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Massawa in Eritrea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Massawa in Eritrea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.1895 East, latitude 15.7042 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:31:22 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pwmb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwmb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 17:31:22 / February 22, 2025 @ 5:31 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Asmara (c. 563 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Keren (c. 74 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Massawa (c. 23 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Dek’emhāre (c. 11 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Keren, Dek’emhāre, Asmara (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Eritrea (c. 5 793 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km WNW of Massawa, Eritrea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.1895° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.7042° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km WNW of Massawa, Eritrea	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-22 17:31:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-11 21:15:11	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.463	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us6000pwmb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwmb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwmb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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