(Eagle News) — A magnitude 4.3 quake struck Norseman in Western Australia’s Goldfields Esperance region, 726 kilometers east of Perth midnight of August 9 (Australia time)
Local news reports in Australia said this was not unusual since the same area also experienced a magnitude 4.7 quake two years ago.
There is no tsunami threat to Australia said the country’s Bureau of Meteorology.
The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake as having a magnitude of 4.1, with a depth of 10.7 kilometers. The epicenter was registered at 174 kilomters north northeast of Esperance, Australia.
Another earthquake struck parts of the Barossa Valley and the southern suburbs in Adelaide on August 8, 2018 around 10 p.m.
(Dwight Baloloy, EBC Australia Bureau, Eagle News Service)