{"id":533161,"date":"2026-03-11T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:31:12","slug":"boorowa-shaken-by-4-4-magnitude-quake-geoscience-australia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533161\/","title":{"rendered":"Boorowa shaken by 4.4 magnitude quake, Geoscience Australia says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake<\/a> has struck north of Canberra<\/a>, affecting thousands of people in the region’s largest shake in decades.Geoscience Australia<\/a> said the tremblor hit at a depth of 12 kilometres near Boorowa, about 100 kilometres north of the capital, at about 7.10pm.The light to moderate quake was felt as far afield as Sydney<\/a> Batemans Bay, Gosford and Albury.\"\"\/Geoscience Australia said an earthquake hit at a depth of 12 kilometres near Boorowa on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (Geoscience Australia)<\/p>\n

More than 5000 people reported having felt the shaking.<\/p>\n

Geoscience Australia seismologist Hugh Glanville said the earthquake was large for the area but not unheard of.<\/p>\n

He said there’d been at least 25 quakes beyond magnitude four recorded there in the past 100 years but this was the biggest since a magnitude 4.8 tremor at Browning that caused minor damage in 1977.<\/p>\n

“Around this size is when you start to get minor damage from earthquakes,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So we don’t know at this stage but you can get minor things like plaster cracking, things falling off shells, and light damage to structures.”<\/p>\n

On Facebook, a Goulbourn resident said it “sounded like a train rumbling past my window and the whole house shook”.<\/p>\n

There have been no reports of damage.<\/p>\n

Glanville said there had been 346 earthquakes within 100 kilometres of the latest epicentre in the past 20 years but most were much smaller.<\/p>\n

He said residents could expect aftershocks that would likely be smaller.<\/p>\n

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