Geodetic constraints on cratonic microplates and broad strain during rifting of thick Southern African lithosphere

LNJ Wedmore, J Biggs, M Floyd… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Africa is typically considered to belong to a single tectonic plate, Nubia, despite
active faulting along the southwestern branch of the East African Rift System. We analyze …

Seismic hazard assessment studies based on deterministic and probabilistic approaches for the Jammu region, NW Himalayas

A Ansari, F Zahoor, KS Rao, AK Jain - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
The Jammu region is located in the Northwestern Himalayas, which has been hit by
moderate to large magnitude earthquakes regularly, including the deadliest 2005 Kashmir …

Crustal and upper mantle shear wave velocity structure of Botswana: The 3 April 2017 central Botswana earthquake linked to the East African Rift System

I Fadel, H Paulssen, M van der Meijde… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave group and phase velocity measurements obtained from ambient noise and
earthquake data at 51 broadband stations were used to construct the first 3‐D crustal and …

Rifting of the Kalahari Craton through Botswana? New seismic evidence

H Paulssen, T Micallef, DR Bouwman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Botswana is a country with relatively low seismic activity that experienced an unexpected
Mw 6.5 earthquake on 3 April 2017. Using data from the first countrywide seismic network …

Gravity derived crustal thickness model of Botswana: Its implication for the Mw 6.5 April 3, 2017, Botswana earthquake

C Chisenga, M Van der Meijde, J Yan, I Fadel… - Tectonophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
Botswana experienced a M w 6.5 earthquake on 3rd April 2017, the second largest
earthquake event in Botswana's recorded history. This earthquake occurred within the …

Seismotectonic analysis of the Anker area, Kunene region north-western Namibia

M Sitali, B Manzunzu, V Midzi, S Shipena… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, a swarm of seismic events occurred within the Kunene region (NW of Namibia)
with magnitude values going up to ML 4.6. Some of the events alarmed the Anker …

Seismotectonics of South Africa

B Manzunzu, V Midzi, TF Mulabisana, B Zulu… - Journal of African Earth …, 2019 - Elsevier
Assessment of seismic hazard is challenging especially for low seismicity regions like
southern Africa. There is very little knowledge in terms of the coupling between the …

Seismotectonic analysis of the 2017 moiyabana earthquake (MW 6.5; Botswana), insights from field investigations, aftershock and InSAR studies

T Mulabisana, M Meghraoui, V Midzi, M Saleh… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The April 3, 2017 MW 6.5, Moiyabana (Botswana) earthquake occurred in the
continental interior of the Nubian plate and in a seismogenic region previously considered …

Risk factors, clinical features, and polygenic risk scores in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder depressive-type

CA Dennison, SE Legge, L Hubbard… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
There is controversy about the status of schizoaffective disorder depressive-type (SA-D),
particularly whether it should be considered a form of schizophrenia or a distinct disorder …

Earthquakes and tsunami

JS Becker, SK McBride, LJ Vinnell… - … hazards and society, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Earthquakes occur as a burst of sudden ground shaking created by the release of
accumulated stress along a fault, often influenced by movement of the world's tectonic …