Kalgoorlie residents obtained a impolite awakening early Tuesday morning after an earthquake struck simply exterior the gold mining city.
What residents could have mistaken for a blast on the tremendous pit, was truly a 2.9 magnitude quake, within the southern a part of the city at a depth of 7km.
Practically 100 locals have reported feeling the occasion to Geosceince Australia’s earthquake monitoring system.
“Residing in Kalgoorlie you at all times assume, oh that’s one other mining blast. However woke as much as the home shaking at 5:31. Only a 2.9 Magazine Earthquake. Good morning,” resident Robert Koenig Luck wrote on Twitter.
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