Germiston was just one of many cities to feel an earth tremor not long ago.
While no information is available at present as to the magnitude of the tremor and what caused it, the GCN has requested Michelle Grobbelaar, head of the seismology unit at the Council of Geoscience to give us details as soon as she can.
Give us your thoughts on the tremor.
Where were you and what happened when the earth started to shake?
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Sitting at home and felt it in Castleview around 12.23pm.
Just a bit of info, its on facebook and said that the earthquacke was 5.3 and hit orkney first.
I was at work in Germiston at Driehoek. It too about 5mins.
Germiston Golden Walk. Even my computer was shaking.
Yes, we did I am situated in Springs my table moved. And I know when I was a child when this was always a thing we knew that time had to moved ouit side and not on the side where electic poles are they can fall down
Turfontein racecourse
Lasted probably 30 to 40 seconds here in Carlswald, Midrand. It was the feeling of a vibrating cellphone. Except everything was vibrating. I stay in a loft apartment and my top window felt like it was going to be pushed in almost, for a second I had a feeling like I need to get out the building. I put my palm on our window and it felt like a cellphone vibrating the whole side of my house. I felt like I could almost hear plaster dust rattling and my blinds on the top loft window. HECTIC. Just felt shock and confusion at first.
It felt as if it shook for a long time. I stay on the 2nd floor of an apartment building and it kinda felt strange, light tingly vibration.
I was at home in Parkhill Gardens working on my pc. I only felt a slight bump like u often feel with underground minning explosions. I was only made aware of it being an earthquake when a friend in Centurian watsapped me