A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook southern Tasmania this morning, with tremors felt across the state as far north as Devonport.
The earthquake struck at 6:38 am near Lake Pedder in Tasmania’s south-west region, registering at a depth of 14 kilometres.
Seismic monitoring systems as far away as Canberra recorded the tremor, which has generated at least 75 felt reports from people across the island.
Residents in Glen Huon, west of Huonville, described being woken by the sound of their house shaking and beds rattling.
The epicentre was located near Strathgordon, south of the small mountain biking town of Maydena in Tasmania’s remote south-western wilderness.
No property damage has been reported as a result of the earthquake.
Jesse Clark, Executive GM for Assets and Infrastructure at Hydro Tasmania, said engineers had been inspecting the Hydro dams and infrastructure in the surrounding areas.
“Quite fortunately it was a small relatively small earthquake compared to what we get nervous about and we’ve already conducted inspections around most of these assets, Edgar Dam, Gordon Power Station, and and I’m feeling quite comfortable,” he told Local Radio.
“We have not been able to see any damage whatsoever at this stage. The information we’ve got at this stage is the probability of damage is extremely low at this level.”
“For major damage at Edgar Dam or something … we’re talking something up in the really high … magnitude 6.8, 6.9 or bigger.”
He said the quake occurred in close proximity to the Lake Edgar fault line, but was not able to confirm whether this morning’s fault was directly related.
