Abstract

The author contends using documented evidence from earlier climate change episodes, that the present climate change episode will also result in crustal movements and adjustmentsand not only in climaterelated hazards as is being recently experienced. The author relies on facts about thetheories of earth structures and systems theory.The author points out recent earthquakes in places that were hitherto not known to be earthquake prone, presents evidence of past and recent tectonic activities in Africa, West Africa and Nigeria and argues that earthquakes risks being matters of probability can occur anywhere on earth under the Law of Averages or as is called in this paper, the Law of Similar Antecedents. The paper ends with a call on the governments of West African countries to commence preparations against earthquake risks as in the advanced countries of the world.

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