> Interesting, but then why there aren’t earthquakes in Africa? There was an earthquake off of the coast of Kenya 3 days ago: https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/

> Interesting, but then why there aren’t earthquakes in Africa? There was an earthquake off of the coast of Kenya 3 days ago: https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/11654975 https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/11654975 However the activity would likely be limited because it's a rift region, aka two plates moving apart from one another (diverging). Large quakes tend to happen in convergent and transform (slip) boundaries, because the two plates deform (due to friction) as they move against one another, loading with energy, then the plates slip (skid), releasing the deformation and the corresponding energy.