Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Debre Sīna in Ethiopia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Debre Sīna in Ethiopia on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.8762 East, latitude 9.598 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 05:24:17 / October 26, 2025 @ 5:24 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000rjiv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rjiv. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:24:17 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Debre Birhan (c. 57 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Abomsa (c. 15 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Debre Sīna (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Metahāra, Āwash, Abomsa. Country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km SSE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.8762° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.598° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km SSE of Debre Sīna, Ethiopia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-26 05:24:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-26 05:41:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	371	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us6000rjiv	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjiv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjiv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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