Shyleen Mtandwa | An earth tremor lasting about 45 seconds rocked Bulawayo, Harare, Lupane, Botswana and South Africa this evening. The incident happened at about 7:45PM. ZimEye readers are giving their own experiences. But no human casualties or serious damage to property have been reported so far.
A ZimEye.com reader wrote, “We have experienced some earthquake tremors here around Ngundu in Zimbabwe at around 1943 hrs. The house windows, door frames and roof vibrated. My wife was terrified that she rushed out of the house,” Nkoman Iman.
This is after an earlier earth tremor was felt in parts of South Africa early Monday morning with no reported casualties.
According to the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) earthquake data, a 5.2 magnitude tremor of a depth of 5km was felt 8km south of Stilfontein (North West Province) at 5:08am local time.
Local reports confirm the tremor felt in Klerksdorp, Ferndale, Randburg and surrounding towns in the North West Province of South Africa.
Residents also expressed their experiences on social media.
Tremours act of God movement of tectonic plates due to change in climate in southern Africa fan.
Kariba is filling up fast, Tokwe Mukosi is a new load on the geological planes. There are going to be tremours as the planes adjust to the new weight. Seismic shifts when rapidily loading or unloading geological planes are normal. That is the price for such large dams. The seismic shifts will be larger when Chitowa and and Lundi Tende dams are in place. Thank God for our defective leadership– these two dams may never be built so those tremours are for next generations. Historically after a cyclone which loads Kariba rapidly, there is a tremour but this year because we have another massive dam, Tokwe Mukosi, it may be worse. it may look like doomsday but its just nature adjusting its feet.
With corruption nowadays maybe they bribed their way through it
felt it here in Gweru.. Kopje…yet people in mkoba did not feel it at all
The Gods have heard our cries Mugabes mark this day as a turning point
Felt it here in borrowdale