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Originally Posted by Marta Pascual Juanola, Sydney Morning Herald, January 10, 2023 — 9.11 AEST
Residents in Darwin have reported waking to pictures falling off the walls and cars shaking in the driveway after a powerful deep-sea earthquake struck a small archipelago in Indonesia during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the 7.5 magnitude tremor hit the Tanimbar region, a province in eastern Indonesia about 600 kilometres north of Darwin, around 3.30am. The region sits on the Pacific “ring of fire”, an arc of seismic faults in the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes and volcanoes are common.
The shockwaves were felt in the Australian mainland shortly after, with more than 1000 people telling Geoscience Australia they felt the quake.
Darwin resident Trevor Power, who was lived in the territory’s capital for more than four decades, told the Nine Network it was the worst earthquake he had ever experienced.
His remarks were echoed by territory-based singer Vassy Karagiorgos.
“We ran out of the house in the middle of the night. I’ve never experienced an earthquake that lasted that long and felt so strong,” she wrote on social media. “It was rather scary.”
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Story here :-
https://www.smh.com.au/national/darw...10-p5cbfy.html
Story at ABC "No risk of tsunami after northern Australia shaken by magnitude-7.6 Indonesia earthquake" :-
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-...rwin/101839192