Johannesburg was rocking this morning, and it’s not because we’re in a brand new month.
Just before 7am on Friday morning, Gauteng residents were lurched from their sleep by a seismic tremor measuring a preliminary magnitude 3.8 on the Richter’s Scale.
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This according to data from South Africa’s Council for Geosciences.
The epicentre of the mini-quake was located south-east of Randfontein, but those located as far as Lenasia felt the shakes.
While it wasn’t cause for concern, some on Twitter went into full apocalypse mode.
Omg thank God I'm not crazy I thought I was imagining my house shake kanti its this #tremor.
— MUSAWENKOSIpic.twitter.com/J033qJXO8B (@weNkosi22) March 1, 2019
Others did what we would’ve done: whipped out those memes.
#tremor Maybe he resurrected more dead people on 1st of March
— Teboho Dimpho (@TD_Lethoba) March 1, 2019pic.twitter.com/Ct5EAkuviQ
Maybe it wasnt #tremor good people…… Just February 29th fighting for its position…. pic.twitter.com/AjHUjaA461
—TsHePi (@Tee_Pee2) March 1, 2019
Did you feel that? #Tremor pic.twitter.com/j2gcf7qbfp
— Mr Black(@Truu_Black) March 1, 2019
Of course, some just went back to sleep.
#tremor this is what happened to me : I felt the tremor( I was in bed) and I was like OMG a bomb just went off
— Kc_Magoro (@KcMagoro) March 1, 2019then I went back to sleep #Johannesburg #Soweto
Another magnitude 3.7 tremor was recorded in South Africa on Friday, but it was centered well off the West Coast, east of Papendorp.
Feature image: Johannesburg from Marshalltown, by Andrew Moore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0, resized)
