What the records say
- When
- 5 Aug 2014
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.4
- Where
- South Africa
- Coordinates
- 26.99° S, 26.70° E
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 17
- Damage musd
- 40
- Houses destroyed
- 13
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 5
2014 Orkney earthquake
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake near Orkney, Klerksdorp, South Africa
The 2014 Orkney earthquake occurred at 12:22:33 SAST on 5 August, with the epicentre near Orkney, a gold mining town in the Klerksdorp district in the North West province of South Africa. The shock was assigned a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale by the Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa, making it the biggest earthquake in South Africa since the 1969 Tulbagh earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.3 on…
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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