Magnitude 4.3 quake hits Esperance region in Australia

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A magnitude 4.3 quake hits Norseman in Western Australia’s Goldfields Esperance region. The USGS, however, recorded it at magnitude 4.1. (Screenshot of USGS website/Courtesy USGS)

 

(Eagle News) — A magnitude 4.3 quake struck Norseman in Western Australia’s Goldfields Esperance region, 726 kilometers east of Perth midnight of August 9 (Australia time)

Local news reports in Australia said this was not unusual since the same area also experienced a magnitude 4.7 quake two years ago.

There is no tsunami threat to Australia said the country’s Bureau of Meteorology.

A tweet about the 4.3 magnitude quake that hit Australia’s Esperance region by the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. (Courtesy Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology)

The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake as having a magnitude of 4.1, with a depth of 10.7 kilometers. The epicenter was registered at 174 kilomters north northeast of Esperance, Australia.

Another earthquake struck parts of the Barossa Valley and the southern suburbs in Adelaide on August 8, 2018 around 10 p.m.

(Dwight Baloloy, EBC Australia Bureau, Eagle News Service)