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Earthquakes and Associated Faulting in Central Sudan

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A SERIES of earthquakes started in the central Sudan on October 9, 1966, and was reported to be continuing into April 1967. Because the earthquakes occurred in a relatively stable part of the African land mass1 away from the unstable belt of the East African and Red Sea Rift Systems, and because of the sinistral strike-slip fault movement which was associated with the strongest shock, they are of great interest.

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Khartoum, Khartoum

    I. R. QURESHI & A. A. SADIG

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QURESHI, I., SADIG, A. Earthquakes and Associated Faulting in Central Sudan. Nature 215, 263–265 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215263a0

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