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Some Western Cape residents reported experiencing tremors on Sunday morning after an alert for a 5.5 earthquake was reported in the Northern Cape. “A magnitude 5.5 earthquake took place 120km NNW of Calvinia, South Africa. The depth was 10km and was reported by EMSC,” Earthquake Alerts posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Earthquake shakes Cape Town as Northern Cape tremor raises questions about safety. If you woke up in Cape Town on Sunday morning feeling your house or windows shaking, you weren’t imagining things.

JOHANNESBURG - The Northern Cape was jolted awake on Sunday morning. There are reports of a 5.3 magnitude earthquake near the town of Brandvlei. Seismic activity of this size normally results in moderate-to-light shaking.

@africanscribe wrote: “The seismic activity in the Northern Cape should be enough to raise eyebrows over Vaalputs, a 10,000-hectare nuclear waste site in Namaqualand, a mere 230km from Calvinia, where all low level radioactive waste from Koeberg is taken”.

A moderate earthquake struck western South Africa early on Sunday, with tremors reported across several regions.