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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Metahāra in Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.5512S, 39.9957WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.047 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:26:50 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/25 / 2025-01-08 18:26:50 / January 8, 2025 @ 6:26 pm. Unique identifier: us6000plaa. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000plaa. Exact location of earthquake, 39.9957° East, 8.5512° North, depth 10.047 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bedēsa, Huruta, Nazrēt. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 39 km SSE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.9957° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.047 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km SSE 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 2025-01-08 18:26:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-21 16:43:32 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 298 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 us6000plaa Id of event.
Event Code 6000plaa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plaa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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