#JustIn: North Coasters report feeling a tremor, did you feel it too?

North Coast residents report having experienced a tremor which some say lasted for 15 seconds at about 1.20pm this afternoon.

Reports on social media are flooding in with calls also being made to the Courier questioning exactly what the ‘shake’ was.

According to information being circulated online, the tremor was felt as far afield as Harding and Port Shepstone in the Ugu District of KwaZulu-Natal.

According to the United States Geological Survey, a 4.3 magnitude ‘earthquake’ struck 44km North West of Port Shepstone and affected both Lesotho and South Africa.

The sound below is an auditory display of seismic activity that is broadcasted from data captured from global earthquake data.

Heard as a ‘bang’, the sound represents a sudden earth-crust fallout or crash (sudden unexpected shift) with a gradual, steady decrease to quiet – as opposed to a crunching, grating sound heard when tectonic plate edges meet.

The Independent Scientific Organisation and provider of real-time earthquake info on Twitter has shared an image reporting the tremor.

We received many felt reports from #Durban region #SouthAfrica in the last 10 min. No information yet about the earthquake pic.twitter.com/6NqQSZTHbH

— EMSC (@LastQuake) October 31, 2019

#Earthquake (#aardbewing) possibly felt 2 min ago in #Province of KwaZulu-Natal #South Africa. Felt it? See https://t.co/wPtMW5ND1t pic.twitter.com/jKQ7s5J0Pq

— EMSC (@LastQuake) October 31, 2019

Meanwhile, social media users have taken to Twitter reporting their experience of the tremor.

https://twitter.com/Lee67454/status/1189865743267094528

If you're in SA and just felt a #tremor, drop your location below 👇🏽 so we can see how widespread it was.

— Sooth Sayer (@CryptoArn) October 31, 2019

Busy minding my business hitting a J ….all of a sudden #tremor

— RE-WIND RE-PLAY (@Linge_Jonas) October 31, 2019

https://twitter.com/ScarcasticSpank/status/1189865156987236352

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