This research aimed at investigating the focal depth, time and magnitude implication of earthquakes associated with the oceanic ridges. Oceanic ridges studied in this research were Mid Atlantic Ridge, Chile Ridge and Pacific ridge. The data were extracted from the earthquake cata...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/20048
Knowledge of earthquake distribution pattern is very essential in exploration, understanding and forecasting of earthquake occurrence on the African plate. This paper focused on application of earthquake distribution pattern technique to investigate the regions of African plate t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/20049
The empirical variation of earthquake parameters such as frequency, focal depth and energy had been used in the past by seismologists to estimate the magnitude of large historic earthquakes from existing intensity maps. The Engineering geologists often need it to predict the inte...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/20050