{"id":607126,"date":"2026-04-14T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:24:07","slug":"thousands-rattled-by-4-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-central-west-nsw-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607126\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rattled by 4.5-magnitude earthquake in central west NSW | Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Part of Australia\u2019s east coast has been shaken by an earthquake that could be felt hundred of kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 4.5-magnitude quake hit at 8.19pm on Tuesday at a depth of 5km about 30km south-west of Orange in central west NSW, near the Cadia goldmine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Geoscience Australia received more than 2,000 reports of tremors in the region, which a senior seismologist said were weak to light and felt as far as hundreds of kilometres south-east in Batemans Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dr Phil Cummins said it was \u201ca large earthquake for this area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The last of a similar size was a 4.3 magnitude in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cummins expected aftershocks but they would likely be much lighter and felt in a smaller area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of Australia\u2019s east coast has been shaken by an earthquake that could be felt hundred of kilometres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-607126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}