The East Rand in Gauteng has been hit be an early-morning earth tremor on Sunday.
Some residents in Gauteng were shaken awake in the early hours of Sunday morning as a 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit the East Rand.
Videos posted on social media showed a sustained shaking, in what one Twitter user described as a"moving train". Automated and preliminary information recorded by the Council of Geoscience indicated a 4.7 magnitude earthquake on Gauteng's East Rand during the pre-dawn hours of Sunday.Information on the website indicates that the quake is yet to be confirmed by a seismologist and the time of the seismic activity was listed as 02:38 South African time.Its initial information on the seismic event indicated it was just below a magnitude 5 quake.
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