Research project: Active fault kinematics during non-volcanic rifting in East Africa - Dormant

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Global seismic networks document frequent and unusually deep earthquakes in the parts of the East African rift lacking central volcanoes. The deep seismicity means that we can use earthquakes to probe the geometry and kinematics of extensional fault systems through the entire crust, and to understand the distribution of strain between large offset border fault systems and intra-basinal faults.