Residents in Darwin and some of Australia’s northernmost suburbs have been rocked overnight after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck offshore.
The quake hit in the Banda Sea off the eastern coast of Timor-Leste at about 9.28pm on Friday.
Seismologists originally logged the event as a magnitude of 6.1 at a depth of 102km before revising it. Earthquakes@GA Credit: Supplied Source Known
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Seismologists initially logged the earthquake as a magnitude of 6.1 at a depth of 102km, before revising it to 5.9 at a depth of 73km.
It followed a smaller 5.2 magnitude earthquake in the same area earlier on Friday.
