Bizarre coincidence

At the point I left off at last night, the main character in my novel is on his way to visit his sister in Cape Town, flying out of Sanae, Antarctica.

He's right about here right now:

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake IN SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE has occurred at:
55.71S 4.13W
Depth 10km
Fri Mar 3 23:36:27 2006 UTC Time:
Location with respect to nearby cities:
500 km (310 miles) WSW of Bouvet Island
2985 km (1850 miles) SSW of Cape Town, South Africa