{"id":71646,"date":"2025-08-16T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:13:08","slug":"nothing-happens-here-disbelief-as-5-6-earthquake-strikes-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71646\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nothing happens here’ Disbelief as 5.6 earthquake strikes state"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gympie local has told Nine.com.au that she was in ‘disbelief’ after realising a 5.6 magnitude earthquake had struck close to her home in regional Queensland. \ufeff<\/p>\n

The epicentre of the quake struck at \ufeffKilkivan, west of Gympie and 256 km north of Brisbane, at 9.50am today.<\/p>\n

It struck at \ufeffa depth of 10km, according to GeoScience Australia.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe epicentre of the quake struck \ufeffKilkivan, west of Gympie and 256 km north of Brisbane, at 9.50am. (GeoScience)<\/p>\n

The quake was felt \ufeffas far away as Brisbane, with witness reports saying they felt the shake as far afield as Bundaberg and the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people have reported feeling the quake.<\/p>\n

Gympie teenager Jemma \ufeffFalla was playing guitar on her bed when the items on her desk started rattling.<\/p>\n

“The house started shaking… It felt like the dryer was shaking but a lot more,” Falla told Nine.com.au.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been to the Pacific airshow before, and it was the same shaking as when the jets go over.”<\/p>\n

\"Falla,Falla, who lives in the centre of Gympie, ran outside to the street where other neighbours had gathered. (Getty)<\/p>\n

“\ufeffIt was really strong… it sort of got worse, and then it died down.”<\/p>\n

Falla, who lives in the centre of Gympie, ran outside to the street where other neighbours had gathered.<\/p>\n

“\ufeffI think everyone was confused… it was just disbelief… when I realised what happened, it was like ‘okay I’m not crazy, we just had an earthquake.'”<\/p>\n

“It was so random cause nothing happens in Gympie. My friend’s mum was saying this is going to be the most interesting thing that’s happened to Gympie.”<\/p>\n

Over 250km away, \ufeffUpper Caboolture \ufefflocal Jessica Ward was watching TV with her fiance when their house started shaking at the exact same moment. \ufeff<\/p>\n

“All of a sudden, the entire house started shaking, the windows were rattling, I heard the washing machine moving around,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"UpperUpper Caboolture \ufefflocal Jessica Ward told Nine.com.au that she and her fiance were watching TV when their house started shaking. \ufeff (Supplied)<\/p>\n

“We looked at each other like, was that an earthquake?<\/p>\n

“It was really intense for a couple of seconds, and then it died down a bit.”<\/p>\n

She said her father also felt the quake in Deception Bay, and her partner’s parents felt it from Redcliff.<\/p>\n

Ward said it was the first earthquake she had ever experienced. \ufeff<\/p>\n

“\ufeffI’m 26 years old, I’ve never heard of a quake in Brisbane.”<\/p>\n

Felt reports have even crossed the border into northern New South Wales, with people in the town of Lismore \ufeffreportedly feeling it.<\/p>\n

About 13,000 homes are without power around Cherbourg and Burrum Heads, Ergon Energy reports.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gympie local has told Nine.com.au that she was in ‘disbelief’ after realising a 5.6 magnitude earthquake had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-71646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71646","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=71646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}