Where Are Africa's Earthquake Zones? Africa has several active seismic zones. In 2016, a group of geologists created the Seismotectonic Map of Africa, highlighting regions based on historical ...

The earthquake in Morocco is an example. Morocco is located on the boundary between the African and the Eurasian plates, which are slowly crashing into each other. The huge belt of mountains that ...

“Since early New Year, the earthquake activity has been progressively decreasing,” Keir tells The Africa Report ... many feared that a dam in the Afar region at Kessem could burst, which would have ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Chile, causing minor infrastructure damage and cutting power to over 20,000 people.

The latest earthquakes shook the Awash Fentale district, which stretches between the Afar and Oromia regions ... my door,” she told VOA’s Horn of Africa Service. According to Zumara, the ...

Myanmar's deadly earthquake has raised alarms beyond Southeast Asia. In Africa, fault lines stretching across the continent pose serious risks, yet preparedness remains low. The recent earthquake ...

says assessing a region's earthquake risk involves looking at historic earthquakes in the region and identifying fault lines, which are fractures between rocks. Africa, he says, lies on a complex ...