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For John Roff, the allure of rocks and landscapes has been a lifelong fascination and he boasts over three decades of experience as a registered professional nature guide.
The gas explosion, as well as the earthquakes and tremors that continue to trouble citizens, reignited an old debate about the city’s mining history.
The Council of Geoscience spokesperson Mahlatse Mononela said that while they could not predict earthquakes, they do know from experience that larger seismic events may be accompanied by aftershocks.
According to the Council for Geoscience, the epicentre was located in the Boksburg area, a few kilometres outside the East Rand Propriety Mine in the East Rand of Johannesburg.
Uganda and Zambia could potentially have their own coastlines in millions of years.
The bioblitz findings concluded that the high altitude sites were still in relatively pristine condition.
Earlier this week a mysterious sinkhole of around 25 metres in diameter and 200 metres deep was discovered in a mining area in the north of Chile.