KILKIVIAN: A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck near the east coast of Australia on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
The quake was 10km deep, the EMSC said. It earlier said the quake, which hit Queensland state, was of 5.7 magnitude.
There was no threat of tsunami to Queensland, Australia’s weather forecaster said in an alert on its website.
A spokesman from state-run energy distribution company Energex told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that around 11,000 properties were without power after the quake.
More than 9,000 people reported feeling the quake, according to the federal agency Geoscience Australia, which recorded the epicentre as the rural town of Kilkivian, about 170km northwest of the state capital Brisbane.