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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 50 km SSE of Metahāra, Ethiopia

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Earthquake location 8.4547S, 40.0227WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Metahāra in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.0227 East, latitude 8.4547 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 03:38:38 / January 23, 2025 @ 3:38 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:38:38 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000padh. Event ids that are associated: us7000padh.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nazrēt, Huruta, Wenjī. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Nazrēt (c. 214 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Wenjī (c. 17 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Huruta (c. 12 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sirre (c. 10 100 pop). Close country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 50 km SSE of Metahāra, Ethiopia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.0227° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4547° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 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 2025-01-23 03:38:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-14 05:50:05 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us7000padh Id of event.
Event Code 7000padh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000padh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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