{"id":222533,"date":"2026-02-02T00:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-five-people-report-experiencing-minor-earthquake-like-tremor-in-windhoek\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:06:02","slug":"namibia-five-people-report-experiencing-minor-earthquake-like-tremor-in-windhoek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-five-people-report-experiencing-minor-earthquake-like-tremor-in-windhoek\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Five People Report Experiencing Minor Earthquake-Like Tremor in Windhoek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>A magnitude 2.4 tremor was recorded in the Windhoek area last Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The tremor was confirmed by the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Five Windhoek residents reported the tremor to VolcanoDiscovery, a geologist-run website that records tremors and earthquakes from around the world, saying they experienced &#8220;weak shaking and rattling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">VolcanoDiscovery wrote on its site that they received the reports from five people in Windhoek minutes after the seismic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 2.4 tremor was recorded in the Windhoek area last Thursday. The tremor was confirmed by the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy in a statement on Tuesday. Five Windhoek residents reported the tremor to VolcanoDiscovery, a geologist-run website that records tremors and earthquakes from around the world, saying they experienced &#8220;weak shaking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,53547,25435,10857,4706,724,257,6321,5144,254,7390,1582],"class_list":["post-222533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-earthquakelike","tag-experiencing","tag-minor","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-people","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tremor","tag-windhoek"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}