THUR, 15 SEPTEMBER 2016-Preliminary reports released by the federal government suggests that the cause of recent earthquake in Jama, Kaduna State, is still under investigation.
Felix Ale, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), in a press statement, Wednesday, said that the nature of the source would soon be determined after the completion of yet another ongoing thorough investigation of the incident by experts in the Space Agency.
Ale said the reports had established that the incident were recorded in Kwoi and surrounding villages of Nok, Sanbah and Chori in Jama Local Government Area of Kaduna State on September 11 and 12, 2016.
The current findings he said was the outcome of a preliminary report by the team of experts immediately deployed to the affected communities from one of the activity centres of the Space Agency: The Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics for on the spot assessment, which carried out a survey and investigation on the incident.
The team which was led by the Head of Seismology division of the Space Agency, Ofonime Akpan accurately recorded the unfortunate incident which made it easy for collation of data and early release of preliminary reports on the incident, according to Ale.
Ale said the analysis as presented in the report showed that the first event occurred at 12:28:16.50 seconds GMT on Sunday 11th September, 2016 and the event has an epicentre located Latitude 9.825N and Longitude 7.885 E while Local Magnitude was 2.6 and Moment Magnitude was 3.0 and Focal Depth was 10km.
He revealed that the second event occurred on Monday 12th September, 2016 at 03:10:48.80 seconds (GMT) with Local Magnitude of 2.6 and Moment Magnitude of 2.9 with Focal Depth of 10km while the epicentre was Latitude 10.879N and Longitude 7.188E.
This was followed immediately by another event at 03:11:20.00 seconds (GMT) located at an epicentre of Latitude 9.927N and Longitude 7.297E, Local Magnitude 2.9 and Moment Magnitude 3.0.
The Space Agency promised to make its detailed reports known to the public as soon as further investigations on the incident are completed.
