Hundreds of locals in the Top End have been woken from their beds early on Tuesday morning to what they described as the 'biggest' earthquake they have ever felt, with the shaking from the tremor lasting a 'long time'.
One Twitter user by the name of Aussie Lobster captured a glass of water on his bedside table shaking and furniture inside the room rattling loudly.
Journalist Annabel Bowles told Sunrise who lives in an apartment said residents in her building ran out onto the street dressed in pyjamas with their kids. "I first thought it was a cyclone... we do get cyclones up here, we had tropical cyclone Ellie a couple of weeks ago," she said about the earthquake sound.
"Cupboards rattling, glass shaking, people's pool water splashing out. I've heard reports some of our apartment buildings in the city shaking or swaying."
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