Indonesia earthquake

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning for almost three hours after a powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Tanimbar islands on Tuesday, ...

Darwin and other parts of Australia's Top End have been affected by a major earthquake that hit Indonesia. Many locals have said it was the strongest ...

“The strongest earthquake I have felt in Darwin. My high set house in Rapid Creek shuddered, the floor shook and furniture moved. Went for a long time, strongest I have felt since the big one that hit Newcastle NSW in the 80s,” a woman added. Residents responded, saying the frightening quake was the biggest they had felt in many years. Many locals have said it was the strongest earthquake they had felt in years. Channel 9′s Darwin chief of staff Kathleen Gazzola said it was the “strongest I’ve ever felt my entire life in Darwin”.

A powerful deep-sea earthquake has damaged village buildings in a lightly populated island chain in eastern Indonesia.

“We ran out of the house in the middle of the night I’ve never experienced earthquake that lasted that long and felt so strong. More than 1,000 people in northern Australia, including in the city of Darwin, reported to Geoscience Australia that they felt the quake. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was at a depth of 105 kilometers (65 miles) not far from Australia’s northern tip.

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. Olivana ...

Residents in Darwin have woken up to a shock this morning, feeling tremors from a 7.6 magnitude quake which struck Indonesia. 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. Olivana Smith-Lathouris, 6PR and Nine News in Darwin told 6PR Breakfast that she personally woke up to a shock with doors and ceiling fans rattling in her home.

Residents in Australia's north woke to shaking homes and cars overnight, when a massive earthquake struck under the Banda Sea. Here's what you should do in ...

The best measure is to "drop, cover and hold". Yes, and the reason might surprise you. different components of the energy or the seismic shaking, travel at different speeds ... But, they're more frequent on the boundaries of these tectonic plates. "We find that a lot of the the injuries that occur in earthquake ground shaking is because people are trying to vacate buildings while the ground is unstable, so they might trip and fall," he says. Essentially, the tectonic plates that cover the Earth are constantly bumping up against each other and become locked with one another. Authorities say deeper quakes cause less damage but are more widely felt. Mr Allen says standing in a doorway during an earthquake is a myth, and is actually a pretty bad idea. "And that means that it actually transmits that quick ground shaking much more efficiently than, say, areas of younger crust or in a volcanic area." Mr Allen says the Banda Sea is one of the most "tectonically active areas in the world" because Australia's continental crust is butting up against the tectonic plate boundary, which is very rare. "What we feel as the ground is shaking is actually the energy that's released when those rocks break, and that energy travels through the Earth," Trevor says. When a magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit under the Banda Sea in the early hours of this morning, people hundreds of kilometres away woke up with a jolt.