Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Western Australia: Tremors hit Gnowangerup and rattles homes as far away as Perth
A huge earthquake has rocked the southern region of Western Australia, rattling homes as far away as Perth.
The 5.6 magnitude earthquake was recorded at a depth of 5km in the small WA town of Gnowangerup, located between Katanning and Albany, by Geoscience Australia at 5.34am on Sunday.
It has generated almost 1,800 ‘felt’ reports, with people taking to social media to claim they experienced tremors as far north as Perth.
‘Did anyone else in Perth feel that shake around 530-540 this morning?’, wrote one Facebook user.
‘Felt like an earthquake, not a big one but enough to shake the house.’
Another person living in High Wycombe in Perth’s east said their ‘wooden blinds rattled plus the birds outside went very quiet’.
A mother living in Kukerin a small town in the Wheatbelt region around 300 kilometres south-east of Perth said the force of the quake had woken her family up.
‘Woke us all up, windows were shaking, pictures moving and the doors were rattling,’ she said.
More to come.
