Darwin earthquake
Submitted: Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:47
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Member - Matt & Caz H (QLD)
Gidday,
As some of you know we are currently in
Kununurra WA (we are travelling Oz long term). The other night around 10pm I woke up to what I thought was one of the 3 kids at the front of the van mucking around in their bunk as the van was rockin big time (it wasn't me or Matt either.........LOL). Went down to investigate and all 3 cherubs were asleep.
Next morning spoke with my girlfriend (who has exact same van as us & 2 kids) she thought the same thing (kids mucking around in their bunks). We looked on the web (after another person said the same thing) and there was an earth quake No;7 on the scale 700 klm's off
Darwin!!!
Did the earth move for anyone else!!!!!
Cheers
Caz
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26257163-2702,00.html
DARWIN residents flooded police with calls of concern after an earthquake shook the Top End last night.
The magnitude-7 earthquake occurred just after midnight local time. It struck in the Banda Sea, about 700km north of
Darwin.
The earthquake occurred about 140km below the surface _ too deep to trigger a tsunami.
Northern Territory police received about 100 calls from concerned residents but no reports of structural damage or injuries.
“NT police received about 100 calls from members of public concerned after the earth tremor and that includes people ringing from the
Darwin region and as far south as
Katherine (300km from the capital,” Superintendent Warren told ABC Radio.
“However there was no structural damage reported and no injuries,”
The Bureau of Meteorology in
Darwin said the tremor lasted up to five minutes with an intense period of about one to two minutes.
Residents reported windows rattling and furniture shaking at the height of the tremor.
Reply By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:19
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:19
Matt & Caz
I didn't hear anything it, but your post has made me think twice about blaming a Wallaby , I was here working on a website and late in the evening (time unknown) I did feel the van bounce a little, looked at my dogs and they were both asleep, then about 20 secs later it went again, I decided this needs a more thorough investigation so out I go armed with a torch and found a Wallaby at the rear the van, so just presumed it was it rubbing against the tyre carrier, this would have Friday or Saturday night,
So maybe it was the tremor that I felt .
I better go and appoligise to the Wallaby.
.
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Reply By: Member - GeeTee (NT) - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:25
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:25
We live in Wanguri and were woken by the noise and the house rocking and rolling. We have an elevated home and "the earth definately moved"
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Reply By: Fred G NSW - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 13:11
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 13:11
I remember when the new
Darwin High School opened. I was in the first lot classes to relocate from the old one. Earth tremors were common in
Darwin, but being in an upstairs classroom certainly increased the effect. I remember we had alarms, and an evacuation procedure when they happened. This was back in the very early 60's.
Fred.
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Reply By: Member - lyndon NT - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:07
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:07
I live in a apartment on the 5th floor in
Darwin, I heard 2nd hand it shook for a full minute. Me, I didn't hear a thing :)
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Reply By: nickoff - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 17:19
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 17:19
Best movement my bed has felt in a long time, and on my own too!
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Reply By: StormyKnight - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 18:20
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 18:20
Below is the link to the Geoscience website. It shows the calculated location & you can also click on a link to see the graph....
http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/earthquake.pl?title=Banda+Sea&magnitude=7.0&depth=113&xy=130.430,-6.290&date=24,10,2009&time=14,40,43&bg1=eqrisk_lm&zoom=1000&station=MTN
Enjoy!
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Follow Up By: StormyKnight - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 18:22
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 18:22
PS the graph definately shows 2 events separated by 60 odd seconds....
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Reply By: Outa Bounds - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 19:40
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 19:40
We were living in
Darwin in '04 when I was on the phone to Hubby and the place started shaking, I'm like "oh I think we're having an earthquake" and then it kept going and I started bleep ting myself (two story townhouse)! Biggest I've felt, pretty sure I've felt a couple at night in
Norseman WA too, just the bed shaking, and yes husband sleeps through anything like that then doesn't believe me the next morning.
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Reply By: Member - Duke (TAS) - Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 22:23
Monday, Oct 26, 2009 at 22:23
At the
Oasis C/
Park at
Morgan Rd out towards Coolalinga and it certainly rocked our Van. Woke me up and i thought it was the better half tossing and turning in bed and when i asked her what was wrong i got abused and told to go back to sleep.
Fairly common occurrence up here in
Darwin. When we lived up here in the 90s i was watching the local News one morning before heading to work and the News reader stopped half way through a report and said ( did you feel the earth move ). Looked out the back and the
water in the Spa was sloshing out over the edges.
Regards Duke
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Reply By: BT- Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 at 00:52
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 at 00:52
Gidday Caz,
we got a pretty good shake in
Darwin. We live in a 7th floor apartment which tends to act like a bit of a tuning
fork - we pick up any little tremor. Anyway, on the night, I thought I could hear heavy rain on the roof and thought that a little unusual - went outside and no rain. Laid back in bed and then saw the TV (on a chest of drawers) getting a good wobble up and making the rain noise. Suddenly the shaking increased dramatically such that I had to hold the telly to stop it falling. I thought this was as bad as it would get when bang - we got even bigger shakes. At this stage I was reminding the misses (eyes like dinner plates) that she was nude and that if she was going to bale please use the stairs and grab a few clothes. The thought of us both nude, cavorting around Larrakeyah in the early hours and locked out does not need to be thought about.
Apparently this was the worst tremor to hit
Darwin in 20 years, in all it lasted about five minutes, all I know is that I don't want to be in a real one.
Cheers
BT
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Reply By: Member - Dave and Shaz - Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009 at 16:14
Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009 at 16:14
Yep we felt it. We are living in
Darwin in a campertrailer that's totally set up on a concrete slab (high ground for when the wet comes hopefully!) and we'd just gone to bed when I rolled over and noticed the campertrailer was rocking back and
forth. I lay there thinking "what's going on" and then asked hubby if he was moving around and he said no, and we laid there just rocking back and
forth. We'd camped in the
Snowy Mountains quite a bit and had woken to wombats having a good night time sratch on our muffler and rocking our rig (back then a Kombi!!) but looked out the windows and nothing. No-one outside doing anything either. We just went to sleep not really thinking about it and then heard the next day about the earthquake.
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