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Earthquakes to a large size do not "occur" on the African continent due to there being no plate boundries running through it. This is as a result of earthquakes resulting from two plate boundries colliding, causing tension which is soon released; an earthquake. However earthquakes of smaller sizes can be seen distrubuted in Africa, especially the Eastern side.
It would be impossible to say how often they take place due to earthquakes being totally unpredictable but ones of any size to comment on happen maybe a few times a year whereas smaller ones that are only picked up my seismographs can be number in their hundreds or thousands.
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∙ 11y agoFrom My Knowledge. Africa Has Never Had Any Earthquakes
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∙ 12y agoYes they do they had a recent one around Africa east of Yeman April 30th 2011
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∙ 11y agoyes but rarely
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