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• TITLE: Preliminary Seismic Hazard Assessment in West Africa Based on Incomplete Seismic Catalogs

  AUTHORS: Eddy Ferdinand Mbossi, Delair Dieudonné Etoundi Ndibi, Pauline Wokwenmendam Nguet, Jean Marcel Abate Essi, Edouard Olivier Biboum Ntomb, Jacques Dili-Rake, Bekoa Ateba, Tabod Charles Tabod

  KEYWORDS: Africa, Seismic Catalog, Seismic Hazards

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Earthquake Research, Vol.10 No.2, May 31, 2021

  ABSTRACT: West Africa is considered a region of low seismicity. However, the monitoring of earthquake activity by local seismic arrays began very early (as early as 1914) in West Africa but seismic catalogs are very incomplete. In 1991, Bertil studied the seismicity of West Africa based on networks of seismic stations in Ivory Coast and neighboring countries. The reference work of Ambraseys and Adams as well as the recent earthquakes given by the international data centres on the seismicity of West Africa were also used for the computations of earthquake hazard parameters. Different earthquake event data have been compiled and homogenised to moment magnitude (Mw). The obtained catalog covers a period of over four centuries (1615-2021) and contains large historical events and recent complete observations. The complete catalog part has been subdivided into four complete subcatalogs with each a level of completeness. The minimum magnitude and the maximum observed magnitude are equal to 2.89 and 6.8 respectively for the whole catalog. The seismic code software developed by Kijko was used to calculate the earthquake hazard parameters. The results give a b value of 0.83 ± 0.08 for the whole period and preliminary seismic hazards curves are also plotted for return periods 25, 50 and 100 years. This is a good and practical example showing that this procedure can be used for seismic hazard assessment in West Africa.