Thousands of reports lodged after quake hit NSW area around 6am, two weeks after previous quake of similar size
A screengrab of a map from Geoscience Australia showing the felt grid of a 4.5 magnitude earthquake near Muswellbrook, NSW on Saturday morning.A screengrab of a map from Geoscience Australia showing the felt grid of a 4.5 magnitude earthquake near Muswellbrook, NSW on Saturday morning.The earthquake struck Muswellbrook, 125km north-west of Newcastle, just before 6am on Saturday, with thousands of reports lodged with Geoscience Australia from those who felt the shake.
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck the area on Friday morning, followed by a 2.5 quake just after 9pm, and a 2.6 quake just before midnight, before the larger quake on Saturday morning. The Saturday morning earthquake was felt in Sydney, down to Wollongong and up to Port Macquarie, according to reports lodged with Geoscience Australia.with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 at 5.58am in Muswellbrook, NSW. If you need assistance in response to this earthquake, contact your local emergency services.
. That caused windows to smash and a chimney to fall over, with felt reports recorded in Sydney, as far south as Canberra, in the north to Armidale and west to Dubbo.Labor MP for Hunter, Dan Repacholi, posted to social media that “the ground has grumbled again with a decent shake” on Saturday morning.“This time a 4.5 magnitude, earthquake at a depth of 5km, 15km south west of Muswellbrook,” he said.
“Obviously for a large section of the area, the power is out and Ausgrid are working to get power back on safely.”
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