PHOTO: Seismogram from Cobar around time of Thursday’s quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Source: IRIS Buffer of Uniform Data (BUD) webtool.
News is in of a minor earthquake near Goodooga on Thursday afternoon and, if you felt it, Geoscience Australia would like to know.
The tremor occurred just after 3:49pm on Thursday 6 April and was captured by seismic stations hundreds of kilometres away.
At this early stage, it is estimated to be of a local magnitude of 3.1 on Australia’s magnitude scale.
The epicentre of the earthquake was more than 20 kilometres east south east of Goodooga towards Angledool Lake and thought to have occurred around 10 kilometres below ground…