© USGSEpicenter of the rare Mozambique earthquake of September 22, 2016.
A rare earthquake struck Mozambique, Southeast Africa, on September 22, 2016.
This is the strongest tremor in the last 11 years, when at least two Mozambicans died and 13 injured as an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook southern Africa.
The previous 6 strongest quakes in Mozambique were:
M7.0 - Mozambique in 2006
M5.7 - Mozambique in 2006
M5.6 - Mozambique in 2006
M5.8 - Mozambique in 1957
M5.9 - Malawi but epicenter still in Mozambique in 1954
M6.0 - Mozambique in 1951
What is going on in the region?
Southern Africa is fairly quiet, seismically speaking, although tremors and quakes do occur. Over the years I have experienced a few tremors in the Durban area, some of which had people running into the streets. Of possible significance is that the African Somali Plate passes through Mozambique and continues into South Africa, turns east, and passes near or under Durban. Wikipedia has a map of the plate but the resolution is not fine enough to see how it correlates to the quake in Mozambique.
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