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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 23 km SW of Metahāra, Ethiopia

Posted by admin on January 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.7795S, 39.7366WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pkgn. Unique identifier: us6000pkgn. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:22:22 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/25 / 2025-01-05 12:22:22 / January 5, 2025 @ 12:22 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.7366 East, latitude 8.7795 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bishoftu (c. 104 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sendafa, Gelemso, Bishoftu.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km SW of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.7366° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.7795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km SW 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 2025-01-05 12:22:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-23 09:29:19 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 4.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277 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 us6000pkgn Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkgn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkgn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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