Biography

Dr. Vunganai Midzi

Council for Geoscience, Engineering and Geohazard Unit


Email: vmidzi@geoscience.org.za


Qualifications

2000 D.Sc., Institute of Solid Earth Physics, University of Bergen, Norway

1997 M.Sc., Institute of Solid Earth Physics, University of Bergen, Norway

1990 B.Sc., Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe


Publications (Selected)

  1. Marimira K., B. Manzunzu, B.T. Shumba, V. Midzi and I. Saunders (2021). Aftershock sequence of 22 September 2016, Manica-Zinave earthquake (Mw5.6), Mozambique, Journal of African Earth Science, 177, 104146.
  2. Manzunzu B., M.B.C. Brandt, V. Midzi, R.J. Durrheim, I. Saunders, T.F. Mulabisana (2021). Towards a homogeneous moment magnitude determination for earthquakes in South Africa: Reduction of associated uncertainties, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 173, 1-11.
  3. Shumba B.T., V. Midzi, B. Manzunzu, L. Ottemöller and K.T. Marimira (2020). Source parameters of the moderate Mozambique-Zimbabwe border earthquake on 22 December 2018, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 166, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103829
  4. Midzi V., T. Pule, B. Manzunzu, T. Mulabisana, B.S. Zulu and S. Myendeki (2020). Improved earthquake location in the gold mining regions of South Africa using new velocity models, South African Journal of Geology, https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.123.0008.
  5. Midzi V., T. Pule, T. Mulabisana, B. Zulu and B. Manzunzu (2020). Reassessment of source parameters of ‘major’ southern African earthquakes, South African Journal of Geology, https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.123.0002.
  6. Midzi V., B. Manzunzu, T. Mulabisana, B.S. Zulu, T. Pule and S. Myendeki (2020). Probabilistic seismic hazard maps for South Africa, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 162, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103689.
  7. Manzunzu B., V. Midzi, T. Mulabisana, B. Zulu, T. Pule, S. Myendeki and G.W. Rathod (2019). Seismotectonics of South Africa, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 149, 271-279.
  8. Mulabisana, T., V. Midzi and B. Manzunzu (2018). Local Site Effects During the Orkney Earthquake of 5 August 2014, Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(1), 147-164.
  9. Pule T., V. Midzi, B. Manzunzu, B. Zulu, T. Mulabisana, G. Rathod and K. Mphahlele (2018). The macroseismic survey of the M4.6, 2017 Stilfontein earthquake, Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 18-21 June 2018.
  10. Midzi, V., I. Saunders, B. Manzunzu, M.T. Kwadiba, V. Jele, R. Mantsha, K.T. Marimira, T.F. Mulabisana, O. Ntibinyane, T. Pule, G.W. Rathod, M. Sitali, L. Tabane, G. van Aswegen, B.S. Zulu, (2018). The 03 April 2017 Botswana M6.5 earthquake: Preliminary results, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 143, 187-194.
  11. Manzunzu, B., V. Midzi, A. Mangongolo and F. Essrich (2017). The aftershock sequence of the 5 August 2014 Orkney earthquake (ML 5.5), South Africa, Journal of Seismology, 21(6), 1323–1334, DOI : 10.1007/s10950-017-9667-z.
  12. Durrheim, R., M. Doucouré and V. Midzi (2016). Earthquakes. In Scholes, R., Lochner, P., Schreiner, G., Snyman-Van der Walt, L. and de Jager, M. (eds.). 2016. Shale Gas Development in the Central Karoo: A Scientific Assessment of the Opportunities and Risks. CSIR/IU/021MH/EXP/2016/003/A, ISBN 978-0-7988-5631-7, Pretoria: CSIR. Available at http://seasgd.csir.co.za/scientific-assessment-chapters/
  13. Meghraoui, M., P. Amponsah, A. Ayadi, A. Ayele, B. Ateba, A. Bensuleman, D. Delvaux, M. El Gabry, R. Fernandes, V. Midzi, M. Roos and Y. Timoulali (2016). Seismotectonic Map of Africa, Scale 1: 10 000 000, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 1st Edition 2016, (Available: http://ccgm.org/en/29-afrique).
  14. Meghraoui, M., P. Amponsah, A. Ayadi, A. Ayele, B. Ateba, A. Bensuleman, D. Delvaux, M. El Gabry, R. Fernandes, V. Midzi, M. Roos and Y. Timoulali (2016). The Seismotectonic map of Africa, Episodes, 39(1), 9-18.
  15. Midzi, V., B. Manzunzu, B.S. Zulu, T. Mulabisana, S. Myendeki and A. Mangongolo, (2015). Impact of Recent Moderately Sized Earthquakes in South Africa: Macroseismic Investigations of the 18 November and 2 December 2013 Earthquakes, South African Journal of Geology, 118 (4), 373-388.
  16. Pule, T., C.J.S. Fourie, A. Kijko and V. Midzi, (2015). Comparison and Quantitative Study of Vulnerability / Damage Curves in South Africa, South African Journal of Geology, 118 (4), 335-354.
  17. Manzunzu, B. and V. Midzi, (2015). The Curious case of the 1919 Swaziland earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, 86 (3), 803-809, DOI 10.1785/0220140228.
  18. Midzi, V., B. Zulu, B. Manzunzu,T. Mulabisana, T. Pule, S. Myendeki and W. Gubela, (2015). Macroseismic survey of the ML5.5, 2014 Orkney earthquake, Journal of Seismology, 19 (3), 741 – 751, DOI 10.1007/s10950-015-9491-2.
  19. Midzi V. and B. Manzunzu, (2014). The largest earthquakes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Chapter in a book titled “Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications”, ISBN: 978 1 107 033 863, p413, ed. A. Ismail-Sadeh, J.U. Fucugauchi, A. Kijko, K. Takeuchi and I. Zaliapin, Cambridge University Press.
  20. Chuma C., Hlatywayo D.J., Zulu J., Muchingami I., Mashingaidze R.T. and V. Midzi (2013). Modelling the Subsurface Geology and Groundwater Occurrence of the Matsheumhlope Low Yielding Aquifer in Bulawayo Urban, Zimbabwe, Journal of Geography and Geology, 5(3) ISSN 1916-9779, E-ISSN 1916-9787.
  21. Midzi V. and B. S. Zulu (2013). Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Dam Sites: The Metolong Dam Site in Lesotho, In: Advances in Dam Technology for Water and Energy in Southern Africa, SANCOLD2013, ISBN: 978-0-7972-1463-7, pg 291-308.
  22. Midzi V., JJ Bommer, FO Strasser, P Albini, BS Zulu, K Prasad, NS Flint (2013). An Intensity Database for Earthquakes in South Africa from 1912 to 2011, Journal of Seismology, 17, 1183-1205.
  23. Midzi V. (2012). Stress change due to the Mw = 6.3 Ceres (South Africa) earthquake and its effect on aftershocks, Africa Geoscience Review, 19(1), 25-34.
  24. Midzi V., Ayele, A., ESARSWG (2010). Determination of velocity models for the East and Southern Africa Region, Africa Geoscience Review, 17 (1), 21 -34.
  25. Midzi V., I. Saunders, M. B. C. Brandt and T. Molea (2010). 1-D Velocity Model for use by the SANSN in Earthquake Location, Seismological Research Letters, 81 (3), 460- 466.
  26. Shumba, B. T., Hlatywayo, D. J., and V. Midzi (2009). Focal Mechanism Solution Of The 15th March 2008, Nyamandhlovu Earthquake, South African Journal Of Geology, 112, 381-386.
  27. Midzi V. (2005). The Receiver Structure beneath the Kuwait National Seismic Network, MESF Cyber Journal of Geoscience, 3, 1 – 21.


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