A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Soweto in South Africa. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:47:23 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cef6. Id of event: us1000cef6. Global time and date of event 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 19:47:23 / January 23, 2018 @ 7:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.8036 East, latitude -26.288 South, depth = 20.29 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.29 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, South Africa (c. 49 000 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mabopane, Vredefort, Delmas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Johannesburg (c. 2 026 500 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Soweto (c. 1 695 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Pretoria (c. 1 619 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Benoni (c. 605 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tembisa (c. 511 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Vereeniging (c. 474 700 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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