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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Āwash in Ethiopia


Earthquake location 9.2627S, 40.1665WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 00:19:00 / January 11, 2025 @ 12:19 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjby. Unique identifier: us6000pjby. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:19:00 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 40.1665 East, latitude 9.2627 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hīrna, Debre Birhan, Abomsa. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Hīrna (c. 12 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km N of Āwash, Ethiopia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.1665° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 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 2025-01-11 00:19:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-11 00:37:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 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 418 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000pjby Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjby An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjby, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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