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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Metahāra in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. Exact location of event, longitude 39.9762 East, latitude 9.0693 North, depth = 9.256 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.256 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:26:46 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pihl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pihl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 23:26:46 / January 7, 2025 @ 11:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bedēsa, Debre Sīna, Debre Birhan.

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

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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: 19 km NNE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.9762° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.0693° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.256 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	2025-01-07 23:26:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-07 23:58:20	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	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.736	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us6000pihl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pihl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pihl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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