Photo: The ‘felt map’ showing where the earthquakes occurred and who reported feeling the shake. (IMAGE: Geoscience Australia)
Residents across a wide area of western NSW were jolted awake in the early hours of last Saturday morning when an earthquake struck in The Marra area, north of Nyngan, followed by a series of aftershocks.
Geoscience Australia reported that the tremor occurred at 2:36 am AEST on 24 May at a depth of up to 10 kilometres.
While the original data said the main quake registered 5.2 in magnitude, it was later upgraded to 5.3…