Adelaide has been hit by a 3.0 magnitude earthquake.
The tremor began at 2.46am but was felt at around 12.15pm local time on Sunday afternoon in the suburbs of Mount Barker and the Adelaide Hills.
The earthquake had a depth of 22km and a latitude of -35.01.
According to Geoscience Australia’s self-reporting feature, it was reportedly felt by almost 800 residents so far.
There is no threat of a tsunami following the earthquake, the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed.
Mount Barker is located 33km from the Adelaide CBD.
Local residents took to social media to share their experiences of feeling the earthquake.
“It scared the life out of me!” one said.
“The house was shaking, everything was moving.”
“There was a really loud rumble, and everything shook” another added.
“Our windows were rattling.”
“I thought it was a giant truck coming up the street,” one commented.
“I had no idea what was going on!”
Earthquakes are the vibrations caused by rocks breaking under stress, according to Geoscience Australia.
The underground surface along which the rock breaks and moves is called a fault plane.
The focus, or “hypocentre”, of an earthquake is the point where it originated within the Earth. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus is called the epicentre, and this is where the quake is felt the most.
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Australia’s largest recorded earthquake was in 1988 at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, with an estimated magnitude of 6.6.
It occurred in a sparsely populated area and resulted in damage to a major gas pipeline.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake at Meckering, Western Australia, in 1968 caused extensive damage to buildings.
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