A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the heavily populated region of Oromiya in Ethiopia late Friday night, with over 250,000 people feeling the earth shake strongly. The quake, which struck at approximately 11:28 p.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck central Ethiopia on Friday, multiple earthquake monitoring agencies said. The earthquake struck near Ethiopia's largest and most populous region, Oromiya with a population of nearly half a million,