Rare Australian Earthquakes
Possibly trigger by the recent lunar eclipse, today there were two 4.2 magnitude earthquakes in Australia, in a region that rarely has any seismic activity:
The centre’s director Kevin McCue said these were the first earthquakes greater than magnitude 4 to strike inland northern NSW since December 1969, when a magnitude 5 quake struck near Coonabarabran.
Mr McCue said the Friday night quakes were felt as far as Coonabarabran, 120km from the epicentre, as well as in Tamworth and Gunnedah.
“It’s unusual to have an earthquake of this size.”
