No tsunami warning despite the massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit the Australian city of Darwin

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No tsunami warning despite the massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the Australian city of Darwin. Image Source: Алексей Мойса on Unsplash There is no tsunami warning despite the massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake that rocked Darwin, Australia.

A massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Barat Daya islands in Indonesia, and shook Darwin, Australia, but despite this, no tsunami warning was issued.

More than 1,700 Northern Territory residents reported feeling shivering from the earthquake early Thursday, December 30, Geosciences said.

The epicenter was about 250 km northeast of Dili and 50 km east of the Indonesian islands of Maluku in the Banda Sea, but many residents in Darwin said they felt the ‘long and strong’ quake with the ground shaking for ‘five to six minutes’.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the quake hit north East Timor around 3.25 a.m. local time and struck at a depth of 166 kilometers.

Darwin’s prime minister, Michael Gunner, said he woke up.

Asked if he had felt a shiver, he told reporters that the “bloody oath.”

“It’s been so long. It’s the biggest thing I can remember and I’ve felt some vibrations here in Darwin.

“I feel for anyone upstairs, if I were upstairs, I would feel so much more.”

“It was a very long and strong earthquake as well, but for some reason, not many people in our building had escaped to the lobby. Maybe the stairs are too lazy,” one person said on Twitter.

Australian Olympic hockey champion Nova Pires said she felt the earthquake.

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