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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Āwash in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on March 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.4351S, 40.228WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 40.228° East, 9.4351° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:53:09 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 18:53:09 / March 16, 2025 @ 6:53 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pz7g. Unique identifier: us6000pz7g.

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Hīrna (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hīrna, Gewanē, Bedēsa. Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 50 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.228° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-16 18:53:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-16 19:10:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 402 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us6000pz7g Id of event.
Event Code 6000pz7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pz7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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