A highly effective 7.7 earthquake has struck a area in Indonesia, with tremors felt in Darwin within the Northern Territory.
The quake impacted Tanimbar area early on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) stated.
There isn’t any tsunami menace to Australia however residents in Darwin within the Northern Territory, about 1800km from the Tanimbar province, felt tremors.
The quake was at a depth of 97kms beneath the Banda Sea, EMSC stated.
Longtime Darwin resident Trevor Power informed 9News the tremors lasted for about two minutes.
“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.
He said although his home was built to withstand cyclones, the property began to shake violently.
“It shook to the purpose you may truly hear the home windows beginning to rattle inside it and creek to the purpose that is the place we had been like nah, that is the more serious one we have ever felt.”
“We scooped up the household, raced outdoors, you may nonetheless hear the roar occurring, the automobile was nonetheless shaking within the driveway, you may nonetheless really feel floor tremors and the canine going completely loopy.”
“By the time we obtained everybody outdoors, it had dissipated, all the pieces was shaking, the Dogs had been nonetheless going off.
“The whole episode lasted two minutes. We still haven’t felt the after tremors yet.”
Darwin 9News reporter Olivana Lathouris stated the quake jolted the NT at 3.30am at present and 1000’s of individuals reported feeling the tremors in Gove, Katherine and Kununurra on the Western Australia border.
Emergency companies had been flooded by calls from involved residents however to date no structural harm has been reported.
