Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Metahāra in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 31/12/24 / 2024-12-31 06:01:45 / December 31, 2024 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pj7l. Id of event: us6000pj7l. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.9486 East, latitude 8.861 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:01:45 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 6 km (3 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bedēsa, Wenjī, Nazrēt (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km SE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.9486° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.861° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SE 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	2024-12-31 06:01:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-23 17:14:45	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us6000pj7l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pj7l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pj7l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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