Banda Sea earthquake rattles the Top End

Did you feel that? A magnitude 6.7 quake in the Banda Sea has hit the Top End.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Banda Sea has been felt in the NT. Pic: Geoscience Australia

An earthquake off the coast of the Top End has rattled Territorians, with hundreds reporting the quake in a matter of minutes.

According to Geoscience Australia a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Tanimbar Islands Region, Indonesia, in the Banda Sea at a depth of 37km undersea.

The earthquake was recorded at 2.50pm on Monday, with tremors felt in Darwin City about 3.23pm.

The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed there is no tsunami threat to the Australian mainland, islands or territories.

More than 400 people had reported feeling the earthquake in Darwin, Katherine, Nhulunbuy, Galiwinku, and across the Western Australia border in Kununurra.

Many took to social media in the wake of the quake.

“Wobbly in Humpty Doo,” one said on Facebook.

“It started slow and then got louder and stronger, how scary,” said another.

A Durack resident said she was “lying on the lounge and it started rocking, I thought it was my dog scratching next to the lounge and making it move”.

In the NT News office desks, doors and resident bobbleheads figurines of Barack Obama and Charlie Cameron shook, while photographer Pema Pakhrin, who was driving back from a photoshoot when the quake hit, said it felt like the vehicle had ‘hit a kerb’ that didn’t exist.

Stay safe, Territorians.

Originally published as Banda Sea earthquake rattles the Top End