The good people of Johannesburg experienced a 3,7 magnitude (some reports put it at 3,8, and others as high as 4,6) tremor this morning at around 7AM.

To be more precise, it was 6:56AM, with the tremor lasting around four to five seconds.

We’re going to try and go the entire way through this story without saying that ‘Jozi was shook / shooketh’, so please bear with us in these trying times.

Peeps on Twitter began sharing their suspicions almost immediately, before the Gauteng Weather account confirmed things:

IOL shared some firsthand accounts from Twitter:

For those who are worried that they’re going to appear in a San Andreas-style apocalypse, you can relax a little. Our tremors are not due to massive fault lines and tectonic plate shifting:

Mia Lindeque, a reporter for EWN, says that the Council for Geoscience has confirmed the epicentre was recorded near Harmony Doornkop mine on the West Rand.

Let’s get a pre-emptive strike in here…

Yes, the memes are coming:

Resist the temptation to be this person.

[source:iol]