No risk of tsunami after northern Australia shaken by magnitude-7.6 Indonesia earthquake

After the magnitude 7.6 Indonesia earthquake rocked northern Australia, there is no threat of a tsunami.

A magnitude-7.6 earthquake that occurred overnight off the coast of Indonesia startled up residents in Australia's north, but the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) maintains there is no fear of a tsunami.

The undersea quake occurred on Tuesday at 3:17 a.m. (ACST) close to the Tanimbar Islands, which are located around 600 kilometres north of Darwin.Authorities in the Tanimbar Islands said that 15 homes and two schools were damaged, and one citizen was hurt.

Australia hasn't yet been the subject of any reports of harm;

According to the BOM, the quake posed no threat of a tsunami to the Australian mainland, islands, or territories.There have also been reports of people feeling it in several areas of Indonesia and Timor-Leste, according to Geoscience Australia (GA).

Tanja Pejic, a seismologist with GA, told ABC Radio Darwin the earthquake, which occurred 90 kilometres beneath the earth's surface, had a preliminary magnitude estimate of 7.6.

According to her, there have been 2,600 reports of earthquakes in the NT and Western Australia, making this one the biggest since 2010.

People from Kununurra to Darwin, Tennant Creek, and all the way to Nhulunbuy reported feeling light to moderate shaking, according to her.

More aftershocks were "very likely," according to her.

Undoubtedly, we have so far discovered one with a magnitude of 5.4, according to Ms. Pejic.So considerably smaller. I'm not sure how people would have responded to that.

In the event of an earthquake, Ms. Pejic advised people to "drop, cover, and hold" while remaining in their current location.

Dropping to your knees, finding cover next to an interior wall or under a sturdy table, covering your head and neck with one hand, and holding on to the wall or table with the other are the steps involved in this strategy.

Following the tremor, social media was inundated with stories of users being startled awake by shaking, many of whom claimed it was the largest quake they had felt in the vicinity.

In Weipa, on Queensland's Cape York Island, one person reported feeling trembling.The territory's resident pop singer Vassy tweeted that she "ran out of the house in the middle of the night" as soon as the shaking began.

It was quite awful. In the middle of the night, he woke us up.

The former federal lawmaker and Olympian Nova Peris tweeted that "photos flew from the walls and the entire house simply shook like crazy."

Territorians were encouraged by Chief Minister Natasha Fyles to be on the lookout for aftershocks.

She wrote on social media, "[I] anticipate a few of us are going to need a coffee or four to get going later this morning after that shock."

Paul Kirby, the NT Minister for Business, claimed that "the whole house rumbling" woke him up.He declared,

"[It was] without a doubt the strongest and longest earthquake that I can remember in the roughly 20 years that I've been here."

"I haven't heard any damage reports, which is excellent,"Residents of Darwin exchange "crazy" earthquake stories.

Following the early morning wake-up call, cafes were packed with locals discussing their earthquake experiences.

Ann Gibb, a resident of Darwin, claimed the earthquake was the worst she had ever felt despite living in a town that is prone to earthquakes.

She woke up, picked up the dog, went downstairs, and listened to everything tremble as vehicle and dog alarms went off.

"Everything was trembling; the whole house was shaking."

Darwin resident Kayla Spicer : claimed she woke up afraid.She described the earthquake as feeling greater than what she and her family were accustomed to. "I got up and was a little terrified by it, but it didn't linger too long," she added.

Travellers From the twelfth floor of their city hotel, Kim and Steve Badham, who had just arrived in the NT capital from Newcastle, NSW, felt the tremors.

It was chaotic; we were rocking back and forth, and the building was quite active, according to Ms. Badham.

Being on the thirteenth floor, according to her husband Steve, "was a little foreboding."

Everyone was standing up and shouting, "What's going on, what's going on?" as they looked over their balconies, he recalled.And we remarked, "We're guessing an earthquake."

The pair had also survived the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, which claimed 13 lives.