43+ Cape Town Earthquake Damage Background. Earthquake today in cape town, 17 november 2020. No damage has been reported yet, this is an evolving story.
There have been no reports of casualties or damages to infrastructure, and no tsunami warning was issued, according to a statement from the wester cape government. Media captionpowerful earthquake destroys buildings and causes flooding on turkey's aegean coast. Stilfontein, north west province (2397 km nnw of.
Many people heard and felt the vibrations from the earthquake near malmsbury loud noise, house 'rumbled' and the floor and couch i was sitting on, 'rippled'.
That's the view of professor andrzej kijko, director at the university of pretoria's natural hazard centre. No damage has been reported yet, this is an evolving story. Cape town felt the earth shake when an earthquake struck on saturday and tremors were felt on the cgs said the 6.2 magnitude earthquake was not related to the tremor felt in cape town and we can, however, confirm the tremor did not appear to cause any damage to infrastructure or public. It caused widespread damage in the towns of ceres, tulbagh and wolseley and led to 12 deaths.