Council for Geoscience confirms Gauteng earth tremor
The Council for Geoscience has confirmed an earth tremor in Gauteng in the early hours of Friday morning.
Residents areas such as Northcliff, Boksburg, Germiston and Glenvista all reported show they felt the ground shaking.
The council’s Michelle Grobbelaar says earth tremors are not an unusual phenomenon in the Gauteng area.
The @CGS_RSA confirms that an earthquake occurred this morning at around 6:35 in Boksburg, in the East Rand of Johannesburg. The earthquake registered a preliminary 3.5 on the local magnitude scale as recorded by the South African Seismograph Network.
— CGS (@CGS_RSA) July 30, 2021
"We have recorded a magnitude frequency of 3,5 in the Boksburg region. This is now automatically located preliminary data, so we are looking at finalising it now and then we will be able to say with certain what time it was.
“This part of the world has experienced it before, so I wouldn't say one should worry, but if you do feel unsafe stay away from being under something like a table.”
