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Earthquakes in Africa is rather unusual - we get some but it is more due to underground mining activity than tectonics. Looking it seems this were the Eurasian
by tibbydudeza 3y ago
Earthquakes in Africa is rather unusual - we get some but it is more due to underground mining activity than tectonics.
Looking it seems this were the Eurasian plate meets the African plate ???.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoAre you sure? Africa is a big continent. There's a lot of seismic activity going on in the eastern part of it, there are volcanoes etc.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI think the Atlas range is still growing. That means plates coming together. I lived in Morocco (and have visited Marrakesh), but that was in the late 1960s. I also lived in East Africa, where they still have some active vulcanism, but I think things are subsiding. Morocco had a bad earthquake in Agadir, in 1960. A huge number of folks died. I think it was mostly poor people, who live in rather slapdash shanty towns.