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How does an earthquake epicentre form far away from a plate boundary?
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How does an earthquake epicentre form far away from a plate boundary?
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I am researching a project for school and I want to find out how does an earthquake epicentre form far away from a plate boundary? Specifically Moijabana, central Botswana.
Can you help?
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A good place to start looking for a particular earthquake is the US Geological Survey:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10008e3k#executive
In particular, this
map
shows that there have been 8 earthquakes in this region - but mostly around 5 on the Richter scale.
Wikipedia says the causes are poorly understood:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraplate_earthquake
Although Botswana is far from a plate boundary, the
great rift valley
is slowly tearing Africa apart as far south as Mozambique, and this must cause rock stresses on other parts of Africa. These stresses could be relieved by intraplate quakes.
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