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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Metahāra in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 39.9837° East, latitude 9.0593° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:28:59 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/24 / 2024-12-26 16:28:59 / December 26, 2024 @ 4:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000pfqt. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pfqt.

Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Debre Sīna, Bedēsa, Debre Birhan.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNE of Metahāra, Ethiopia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.9837° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.0593° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km NNE 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	2024-12-26 16:28:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-26 17:57:23	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	3.1	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.737	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us6000pfqt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pfqt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pfqt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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