Residents in the territory’s capital said the tremor was the worst they had experienced in decades.
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 shockwaves were felt in the Australian mainland shortly after, with more than 1000 people telling Geoscience Australia they felt the quake. “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.”
Former senator and athlete Nova Peris said she felt the entire house shaking “like crazy” and pictures came off the walls when the tremor struck.Nine reporter Olivana Lathouris, who is based in Darwin, said thousands of people had reported feeling the tremor in the Gove Peninsula in Arnhem Land, and Katherine.
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