Date December 6–19, 2009 Casualties 4 deaths | Magnitude Mw ~6.0 | |
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The 2009 Karonga earthquakes occurred near Karonga, Malawi in December 2009 near the northern tip of Lake Malawi in southeast Africa.
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Damage
Over 1000 houses collapsed, 4 people were killed and 300 people were wounded in this earthquake sequence.
Extent
The 6.0 earthquake could also be felt in Tanzania and Zambia.
Geology
Being in the southern East African Rift, the 100 km-long Livingstone Fault marks the limit of the Karonga Basin. The earthquakes were about 50 km west of the Livingstone Fault. A research of J. Biggs et al. shows that one of the west dipping faults which cut the Karonga Basin might rupture in the earthquakes.
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