A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 05:21:39 / January 23, 2025 @ 5:21 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 39.9162° East, 8.4571° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pad8. Id of event: us7000pad8. The earthquake occurred 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 temblor was detected at 05:21:39 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mojo (c. 34 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mojo, Gelemso, Nazrēt (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 48 km S of Metahāra, Ethiopia.
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