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Significant magnitude 5.0 earthquake 96 km east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fri, 17 Jan 2025, 17:43 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR
The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.0 quake in Ethiopia near Addis Ababa, only 23 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the evening on Friday, January 17th, 2025, at 8:18 pm local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.0 as well.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Metehara (pop. 23,400) located 46 km from the epicenter, Debre Birhan (pop. 57,800) 56 km away, Āwash (pop. 36,500) 65 km away, Nazrēt (pop. 214,000) 80 km away, Bishoftu (pop. 197,600) 84 km away, Mojo (pop. 34,500) 85 km away, Addis Ababa (pop. 2,757,700) 96 km away, and Abomsa (pop. 15,300) 98 km away.
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Earthquake data:
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Date & time: Jan 17, 2025 08:18 pm (Addis Ababa time) local time (17 Jan 2025 17:18 GMT)
Magnitude: 5.1
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 9.18°N / 39.61°E 
(Amhara, Ethiopia)
Primary data source: GFZ
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