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Tsunami Hazard level: Medium. In the area you have selected (City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality) tsunami hazard is classified as medium according to the information that is currently available. This means that there is more than a 10% chance of a potentially-damaging tsunami occurring in the next 50 years.

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Cape Town - Should a tsunami ever hit the Mother City from the south, the harbour would be protected because of its geography, but should it come from the northwest, the Cape coast could see extremely high waves.. The worst South Africa would experience after an earthquake on the sea bottom, would be a surge of water and a rising.

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Disaster management teams in Cape Town spent the better part of Saturday assessing various areas affected by the surges. City of Cape Town Disaster Risk Management Centre spokesperson Sonica Lategan said they received reports of rough seas in the Gordon's Bay area.

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Strong tides combined with violent winds caused a powerful swell over the weekend, with water overtopping the dykes and flooding streets and houses in places.

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Cape Town - Although some have said the seemingly unusually high swells seen along the South African coastline on Wednesday were not unusual, others have questioned the cause and if the waves.

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freak waves of a storm surge hit several places along the Garden Route in the Western Cape on Saturday. WATCH: FREAK WAVES OF STORM SURGE HIT GARDEN ROUTE Parked vehicles were washed away,.

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Professor Frank Shillington from the University of Cape Town's oceanography department said that the unusual waves along the coast of South Africa were because of the Asian tsunamis. "It took.

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One of only six large estuaries on South Africa's west coast, the Diep River estuary in Milnerton, Cape Town, experienced a major fish die-off in March. Estuaries such as these are critically important as fish nurseries, says marine biologist and founder and director of Anchor Environmental Consultants Dr. Barry Clark.

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V&A Waterfront appeals Cape Town's withdrawal of permit for NYE fireworks The City of Cape Town is set to answer the appeal in the next two days, says David Green, CEO of the V&A Waterfront. 27.

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Cape Town, South Africa - A powerful storm surge caused widespread flooding and damage along the coast of South Africa on Saturday, killing one person and causing millions of dollars in losses. Sea water stormed homes and restaurants-Image Source: Sky News

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A third earthquake occurred on 16 November, just 46 km south of Saldanha Bay and 76 km northwest of Cape Town, with a magnitude of 3.5 at 5 km depth. A fourth earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 occurred on 24 January 2021 (Figure 3).

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In Wilderness, Western Cape, a 93-year-old woman died after she was swept off her feet by a wave while she was watching the surf from a parking lot. The Kouga Municipality also confirmed that the.

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'Looks like a tsunami': South Africans react to high tides in Cape Town WATCH VIDEOS: South Africans took to social media to react to high tides in Gordons Bay in the Western Cape on.

Strongly amplified wave overtopping the harbour wall at Kalk Bay

Restaurants and cars destroyed in South Africa! Mini tsunami in Gordon's Bay, Cape TownStorm surges wreaked havoc across a number of coastal communities in t.

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South Africa: Experts probe 'mini tsunami'. Cape Town - A mini tsunami may be the reason for the sudden rise and fall of the sea level along the West Coast over the last few days. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) received reports that the sea level in Hout Bay, St Helena Bay, Saldanha Bay and Lambert's Bay changed suddenly three times.