Moderate Earthquake hits SW Western Australia

Geoscience Australia
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:50 UTC

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Earthquake Details:

Date: 28/08/2007
Time (UTC) hh:mm:ss: 15:33:04
Latitude: -35.429
Longitude: 115.942
Depth (km): 18
Magnitude: 4.6
Felt radius: 113 km (approx)
Damage radius: 9 km (approx)

Comment: A reader of SOTT sent the following report:

"Earthquakes are rare in this area and it was the first for both myself and my wife who was woken up by it. A number of people at work had also been woken up by the shaking and the noise of the quake. When I looked on the news this morning there was no mention of it and also on USGS no mention. The initial report on the geoscience Australia site was of a 5.2 magnitude quake, which happened at 11.33pm local time. Later it was downgraded to 4.6. We live probably 30-40km outside of the 113km 'felt radius'. "