Zimbabwe: SA Earthquake - Zim Safe

6 August 2014

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.

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