The East African Rift stretches from the Afar region of Ethiopia southward. It reaches as far as Mozambique, which shares a border with South Africa. Credit: Redgeographics, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The East African Rift stretches from the Afar region of Ethiopia southward. It reaches as far as Mozambique, which shares a border with South Africa. Credit: Redgeographics, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mozambique experiences damaging rift-related earthquakes

By Alka Tripathy-Lang and Wendy Bohon

September 8, 2020

Central Mozambique has experienced several damaging earthquakes in the last few decades, including a magnitude-5.6 event on December 22, 2018, near the Zimbabwe border. Seismic stations from around the world helped to clarify the characteristics of this earthquake.

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