Residents in Darwin have woken up to a shock this morning, feeling tremors from a 7.6 magnitude quake which struck Indonesia. DETAILS: 9News
A powerful 7.7 earthquake has struck a region in Indonesia, with tremors felt in Darwin in the Northern Territory.
The quake impacted Tanimbar region early on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. There is no tsunami threat to Australia but residents in Darwin in the Northern Territory, about 1800km from the Tanimbar province, felt tremors.The quake was at a depth of 97kms below the Banda Sea, EMSC said."I reckon this is the worst I've felt in the way the shake occurred and then the shake got worse and worse to the point it seemed rather violent.
"By the time we got everyone outside, it had dissipated, everything was shaking, the Dogs were still going off.Darwin 9News reporter Olivana Lathouris said the quake jolted the NT at 3.30am today and thousands of people reported feeling the tremors in Gove, Katherine and Kununurra on the Western Australia border.
Emergency services were flooded by calls from concerned residents but so far no structural damage has been reported.
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