{"id":408098,"date":"2021-07-30T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=408098"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T06:05:52","slug":"earthquake-hits-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/408098-earthquake-hits-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake hits South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit South Africa at around 06:34 on Friday. The tremor was centred in the south of Johannesburg on the outskirts of Katlehong, near Alberton, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.<\/p>\n

The exact coordinates of the source of the quake was 26.342\u00b0S 28.227\u00b0E, and it happened at a depth of 5.0 km, the USGS stated<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gauteng residents reported feeling the effects of the earthquake, with several people saying they were worried the buildings they were in might collapse.<\/p>\n

“Grew up in a time when we had frequent mining related tremors. This was the worst I’ve experienced!” a person from Boksburg stated.<\/p>\n

“Was woken up with windows rattling and lots of noise,” another witness from Ekurhuleni said.<\/p>\n

In Germiston, a person said that the rumbling was very loud just before the shaking.<\/p>\n

“Everything shook but the duration was only a few seconds,” they said.<\/p>\n

Residents of Sandton<\/a><\/strong>, Kempton Park, and Glen Vista also reported feeling the quake.<\/p>\n

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Map of 30 July earthquake source in Gauteng, USGS<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The South African Council for Geoscience’s systems reported<\/a><\/strong> detecting a magnitude 3.4 earthquake near Boksburg.<\/p>\n

“Earthquake information published on the Council for Geoscience website is obtained from waveforms recorded by the South African National Seismograph Network,” it stated.<\/p>\n

“The information provides both automated and analysed assessment of the earthquake parameters. Viewers of the website are cautioned that the parameters shown are considered preliminary, unless otherwise indicated.”<\/p>\n

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Map of earthquake in South Africa, Last Quake<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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The US Geological Survey has released details and maps of the earthquake that rocked Gauteng on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":408110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[26256,35,26260],"class_list":["post-408098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-earthquake","tag-headline","tag-united-states-geological-survey-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408102,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408098\/revisions\/408102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}