Chilling films: Buildings quiver as earthquake hits South Africa's Johannesburg | World News

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Johannesburg, shaking buildings all through South Africa’s most populous province, United States Geological Survey (USGS) well-known. The tremor struck at 2:38 am (0038 GMT) spherical 10 kilometres (six miles) below the ground, the USGS acknowledged. Buildings shook all through the province of Gauteng, the place Johannesburg is located.

Residents all through the province shared footage on social media displaying minor structural damages of partitions.

Emergency suppliers division didn’t report any casualties nor accidents nonetheless acknowledged that the disaster administration teams would keep on standby. Johannesburg emergency suppliers spokeswoman Xolile Khumalo warned residents to “be on alert in case after tremors occur, (as) these are usually further dangerous than the preliminary earthquake”.

The epicentre of the “comparatively prolonged tremor” was at Boksburg, small a metropolis located about 20 kilometres east of Johannesburg, the authorities acknowledged. In August 2014, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit a gold mining metropolis near Johannesburg.