Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Hits Johannesburg, South Africa
A 5.0-value earthquake has struck the South African metropolis of Johannesburg, waking up human beings and inflicting harm to a few buildings, seismologists and citizens say. Shaking become broadly felt throughout the metropolis and the vicinity as an entire.
The earthquake took place at 2:38 a.m. on Sunday and became focused simply 6 kilometres south of Alberton, or kind of sixteen kilometres southeast of principal Johannesburg, in line with seismologists.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stated the earthquake had an importance of 5.0, even as South Africa’s Council for Geoscience positioned it at 4.7. The quake struck approximately 10 kilometres underneath the surface, which may be very shallow.
People stated the shaking become robust sufficient to wake them up and a few houses suffered enormously minor harm, however, there have been no instant reviews of injuries. “The entire residence shook for approximately forty seconds,” one resident in Alberton stated.
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This is the most powerful tremor withinside the Johannesburg region due to the fact March 2019, a 4.9-importance earthquake hit close to Soweto. In 2017, a 5.2-value earthquake hit close to Stilfontein.
