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).

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

Residents experienced an earthquake that measured a 5.3 magnitude 101 kilometres from Rondvlei in the Northern Cape. It was also felt in Cape Town.

I woke my husband up but he didn’t feel the bed moving.”Linnert said later that morning she asked her husband if he recalled being woken.“I asked him, ‘Do you remember I woke you up?’ I was questioning my own sanity and then after he did some research we realised what it was.

An earthquake, with a magnitude of around 5.3, was recorded in the Northern Cape in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) agency.

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”.