Abstract
An earthquake of magnitude Ml = 3.04 was detected on the 19 of March 2005 at 11:49:18.31 (local time) by seven broadband seismometers located around Cameroon (Central Africa). Its epicenter has been relocated and found to be in Monatele (Cameroon) with latitude 4°26.34' and longitude 10°59.62'. The fault-plane solution calculated using double couple fault-plane solutions based on P-wave polarity readings, also taking into consideration the dextral nature of the Sanaga Fault (SF) underlying this region of the epicenter, is a strike-slip fault with a normal faulting component. The beach ball representation of this fault-plane solution has strike, dip and rake values of 289, 70, -169 for the principal fault plane and 195, 80, -20 for the auxiliary fault plane.
Highlights
On the 19th of March 2005, an earthquake occurred in the Center Province of Cameroon and the preliminary location of this earthquake situated it at a latitude of 4 ̊10.86', a longitude of 11 ̊1.38' with a depth of km by the US National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC); and at a latitude of 4 ̊12.74', a longitude of ̊6.28' with a depth of 10 km by the International Seismological Center (ISC) [1]
Considering the orientation of the two fault planes in the beach ball representation of the fault-plane solution generated with FPFIT, the fault plane with strike, dip and rake values of 289, 70, −169 is oriented such that the solution is dextral
When beach ball representation of fault plane solutions are taken into consideration, the beach ball solution generated from this earthquake suggests that this fault is a strike-slip fault with a normal faulting component
Summary
On the 19th of March 2005, an earthquake occurred in the Center Province of Cameroon and the preliminary location of this earthquake situated it at a latitude of 4 ̊10.86', a longitude of 11 ̊1.38' with a depth of km by the US National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC); and at a latitude of 4 ̊12.74', a longitude of ̊6.28' with a depth of 10 km by the International Seismological Center (ISC) [1]. In this current study, records from 7 stations of this deployment were used to relocate the epicenter of this earthquake in Monatele, the divisional headquarters of the Lekie Division of the Center Region of Cameroon
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