Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Western Australia: Quakes hit Gnowangerup, rattling houses as far away as Perth
A massive earthquake has rocked the southern region of Western Australia, rattling houses as far as Perth.
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake was recorded by Geoscience Australia at 5.34am on Sunday at a depth of 5 km in the small WA town of Gnowangerup, located between Katanning and Albany.
It has generated nearly 1,800 ‘felt’ reports, with people taking to social media claiming they had experienced tremors as far north as Perth.
One woman said she was literally shaken out of bed and her dogs went “crazy.”
“It sounded like a train was coming,” she wrote.
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake was recorded by Geoscience Australia at 5:34 am on Sunday at a depth of 5 km in the small town of Gnowangerup, between Katanning and Albany.
People took to social media to share their experience of the quakes, with many claiming they were shaken out of bed
Many people far from the epicenter claimed to have felt the tremors.
“Anyone else in Perth felt that jolt around 530-540 this morning?” one Facebook user wrote.
“Felt like an earthquake, not a big one but enough to shake the house.”
Another person who lives in High Wycombe in eastern Perth said their ‘wooden blinds were rattling and the birds outside got very quiet’.
A mother who lives in Kukerin, a small town in the Wheatbelt region about 300 kilometers southeast of Perth, said the strength of the earthquake had shaken her family.
“We all woke up, windows were shaking, pictures were moving and the doors were rattling,” she said.
More to come.