1983 Guinea earthquake

Earthquake in West Africa 1983 Guinea earthquake Guinea 1983-12-22 04:11:29 563420 usp00020q5 1983 12 22 04:11 6.3 w yes 11.3 km mi 0 on 11.866 -13.529 region:GN_type:event inline,title Oblique – Normal IX 300 dead, 1,500 injured, 200 missing 1983 Guinea earthquake.jpg USGS ShakeMap On December 22, 1983, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck northern Guinea, killing around 300 people, and injuring 1,500. Around 200 people went missing. An earthquake of this magnitude was unusual for this region of West Africa, which was previously believed by most seismologists to be aseismic.Natural Hazards in West and Central Africa Langer C. J. Bollinger G. A. The December 22, 1983, earthquake in Guinea, West Africa 1992 Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 9783663052418 International Monograph Series 31–36 10.1007/978-3-663-05239-5_4 The earthquake destroyed 5,000 houses. It had an intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, although USGS reported it as VIII (Severe).https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00020q5#executive M 6.3 – Guinea United States Geological Survey 2018-01-12 The earthquake caused cracks in the ground, and an entire cavern to collapse. Geology The earthquake occurred on the edge of the Paleozoic Bové Basin, near the western margin of the Precambrian West African Craton and close to the southern end of the late Proterozoic to Hercynian Mauritanide Belt.Dorbath C. Dorbath L. Gaulon R. George T. Mourgue P. Ramdani M. Robineau B. Tadili B. 1984 Seismotectonics of the Guinean Earthquake of December 22, 1983 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32987507 Geophysical Research Letters 11 10 971–974 10.1029/GL011i010p00971 1984GeoRL..11..971D Impact The New York Times, citing the national radio, reported that at least 16 settlements were razed. Several towns including Labe, Gaoual, Mamou and Kindia suffered heavy damage.West Africa Quake Is Reported To Leave 200 Dead in Guinea https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/24/world/west-africa-quake-is-reported-to-leave-200-dead-in-guinea.html 8 August 2024 Associated Press The New York Times 24 December 1983 6 In Gaoual, at least 143 people were killed. The earthquake also left several thousand people homeless.Death Toll Rises to 300 in Guinea Earthquake https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/25/world/death-toll-rises-to-300-in-guinea-earthquake.html 8 August 2024 Reuters The New York Times 25 December 1983 See also Guinea Earth sciences Geology of Guinea List of earthquakes in 1983 References Further reading Langer C. J. Bonilla M. G. Bollinger G. A. Aftershocks and surface faulting associated with the intraplate Guinea, West Africa, earthquake of 22 December 1983 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 77 5 1987 1943-3573 10.1785/bssa0770051579 1579–1601 1987BuSSA..77.1579L Category:Natural disasters in Guinea Category:Earthquakes in Africa Guinea earthquake Earthquake Guinea Category:1983 disasters in Africa