Only one man around to feel magnitude-4.7 earthquake in remote Australia
A worker at WA's Cocklebiddy Roadhouse is shaken awake by a magnitude-4.7 earthquake in the early hours of Wednesday.
A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck near Cocklebiddy on Australia's Eyre Highway in Western Australia this morning. The quake lasted for around three minutes, but caused no damage. Only one person, Tyson Allamson, reported feeling it at the remote Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, located over 1,000km east of Perth on the Nullarbor Plain. Geoscience Australia detected the earthquake using its 100 seismometers nationwide.
Senior seismologist Jonathan Griffin noted that while the quake was significant, it falls short of causing structural damage unless near poorly constructed buildings. This year marks the largest earthquake recorded in WA, surpassing last year's magnitude-4.7 quake in Wyalkatchem and an offshore event from August. The region has seen several smaller earthquakes in recent years, with one magnitude-5 quake hitting Kalgoorlie-Boulder in 2010, causing considerable damage.
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