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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Mek’ele in Ethiopia


Earthquake location 13.774S, 39.9181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Mek’ele in Ethiopia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000rkr5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkr5. 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 18:36:37 / October 11, 2025 @ 6:36 pm. Exact location, longitude 39.9181° East, latitude 13.774° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:36:37 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ādīgrat, Mekele (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Mekele (c. 215 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ādīgrat (c. 65 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 56 km ENE of Mek’ele, Ethiopia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.9181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.774° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km ENE of Mek'ele, 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 18:36:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-07 17:40:51 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 259 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us6000rkr5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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