Reports of 7.5 mag earthquake in Tanimbar region, Indonesia felt in Darwin

[gary]

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.”

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

[leon]

Yea I know, I was there in my little bed at 3.15am and then it started to shake and move, I thought I must have been dreaming until the whole building shock and the paintings fell off the wall.

I and others hightailed to the street till it was over just in case the place fell down.

I told my Alice about it this morning and she commented, "There is no lightning around to strike you down, but you could have been squashed by an Earthquake", God bless her.

Leon