Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Ādīgrat in Ethiopia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Ādīgrat in Ethiopia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/25 / 2025-10-11 18:38:22 / October 11, 2025 @ 6:38 pm. Unique identifier: us6000rglu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rglu. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:38:22 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.7476 East, latitude 13.9819 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mekele, Ādīgrat (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Mekele (c. 215 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ādīgrat (c. 65 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km SE of Ādīgrat, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.7476° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.9819° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km SE of Ādīgrat, Ethiopia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-11 18:38:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-11 19:20:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	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	356	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	110	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.883	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us6000rglu	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rglu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rglu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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