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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Āwash in Ethiopia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Āwash in Ethiopia on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 40.0784° East, 8.9288° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:59:25 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rnui. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnui. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 21:59:25 / November 17, 2025 @ 9:59 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sirre, Āsbe Teferī, Bedēsa. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Āsbe Teferī (c. 30 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Metahāra (c. 23 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bedēsa (c. 17 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Gelemso (c. 16 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Āwash (c. 11 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Sirre (c. 10 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Ethiopia (c. 88 013 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 11 km WSW of Āwash, Ethiopia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.0784° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.9288° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km WSW of Āwash, Ethiopia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-17 21:59:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-18 02:32:08	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us6000rnui	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnui	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnui,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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