Last night at around 21:30 I was going through my tweets when I saw a whole whack of people in Joburg that were saying there had been an earth tremor around Jozi. By the sounds of things it was pretty widespread with people in Fourways to the east saying the felt it.
I did some research this morning and came across the Geoscience.org.za website, who reported it to be a 2.8 magnitude tremor on the Richter scale.
| Thu, 26 August 2010 at 21:04:55:54 SAST |
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| Date and Time: |
Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 21:04:55:54 SAST |
| Magnitude: |
2.8 (Local Richter) |
| Depth: |
2.0 km (Fixed) |
| Location: |
-26.261° South, 27.954° East |
| Region: |
Central Rand gold mines, Gauteng Province |
| Location quality: |
Error estimate: Longitude ± 5.0 km, Latitude ± 4.2 km, Depth fixed by location programme |
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| Source: |
Seismology Unit of the Council for Geoscience |
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For more info check out the full analysis on the Geosience site