Maydena earthquake: Tasmania shaken by 4.1 magnitude earthquake with tremors felt from Strathgordon to Hobart
Residents across Tasmania’s south west have been rattled by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake that one local described as like a “thunderclap”.
Geoscience Australia has received more than 100 reports from people who felt the earth shake, from the epicentre in Maydena across to to Hobart and up to Launceston.
The earthquake struck at 6.38am local time at a depth of 14km.
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“It felt like a really loud thunderclap that shakes the house and shakes your internals almost, but it carried on for a lot longer than a normal thunderclap,” Sarah said.
A Hobart resident told 7NEWS he had felt the quake more than 150km away from the epicentre.
“The house cracked (it sounded like wood breaking),” he said.
“I felt it. But it wasn’t massively intense.”
The Bureau of Meteorology says the earthquake does not pose a tsunami threat.
