The Meteorological Services of Zimbabwe has assured people that they are safe from the earthquake that yesterday hit South Africa, killing a 31-year-old man in an old mining village in Orkney.The earthquake shook buildings in Johannesburg and surrounding areas.
According to the US Geological Survey, the magnitude 5,3 quake was centred six kilometres east of Orkney, 170km south-west of Johannesburg in the North West.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article