Residents across the Top End were awoken in the early hours of Tuesday morning after an earthquake struck near Indonesia. The Bureau of Meteorology says there is no risk of a tsunami.
abc.net.au/news/nt-earthquake-tsunami-7-7-darwin/101839192The Bureau of Meteorology says there is no risk of a tsunami after Territorians were awoken by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake north of Darwin overnight.There is no risk of a tsunami to the Australian mainlandThe undersea earthquake hit at at 3:17am ACST on Tuesday, approximately 600 kilometres north of the Northern Territory capital.The level of infrastructure damage — if any — remains at this stage unclear.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 and hit 97 kilometres beneath the earth's surface, according to Reuters.
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