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Witness location : Hantam (South Africa) (115 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Calvinia, every thing shook for about 30 seconds like crazy 😲😲

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (376 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 39 min

Felt couch shaking underneath  me for a few seconds (just before 3am)

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (378 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

lamp shook, hanging medals rocked around

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (380 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

Woke up from 8th floor in Bloubergstrand. Bed swaying and window blinds hitting the windows.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (380 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 7 min

Everything shook for a few seconds

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (380 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 370 min

Thought I had imagined this, but now I see the reports 🫨 I woke because there was a weird sound and then felt like the bed was moving, but it was so brief that I figured I imagined it.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (382 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 641 min

While no damage was experienced, the rumbling was felt quite clearly, the sound was also fairly audible. Movement was visible in the slight swaying of a wall-mounted television. Animals in the area were also very reactive to the event.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (382 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 345 min

Small movement while sleeping. Felt like I was on a boat moving from side to side

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (383 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Woke me up. Felt like the bed was moving.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (384 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 24 min

Woke up to my bedoving side to side.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (384 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Western Cape, northern suburbs, I felt the bed shake quite a bit

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (384 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Woke up from the bed shaking back and forth. It lasted at least 8 - 10 seconds long

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (386 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

I felt my bed moving under me and heard the windows shaking for about 10 seconds

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (386 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 212 min

Bed shaking

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (391 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 45 min

Was sleeping and felt the ground moving and saying. Lasted about 6 seconds.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (395 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

On the fifth floor of six story building in Rondebosch and it was swaying to the extent that it woke us up.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (396 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Felt the couch shaking and noticed the netting on safety gate shaking briefly.

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (408 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 337 min

Felt the tremor,

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (411 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Earth quake shook my bed

Witness location : Cape Town (South Africa) (414 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 24 min

For us it felt more like swaying than shaking, lasting several seconds

Witness location : Cape Agulhas (South Africa) (473 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 993 min

Only felt it because I was awake. The bed swayed a bit.

Witness location : Mossel Bay (South Africa) (475 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 7 min

Significant shaking lasting several seconds

Witness location : Bitou (South Africa) (534 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 32 min

Bed shaking, woke me up, water swayed in glass on nightstand.

Witness location : Bitou (South Africa) (550 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Light shaking that woke us up.