- Two quakes recorded within hours of each other
- Residents report feeling tremors
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An Aussie mining has been rocked by two earthquakes within five hours.
The first 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck Port Hedland in Western Australia’s Pilbara region at 8.44am on Wednesday.
A second 2.8 magnitude tremor was recorded off the coast at 1:20pm.
Geoscience Australia measured the depth of the quake at 10km.
Residents took to social media to reported feeling the tremors from the earthquake.
Some locals said the felt the aftershock as far as Marble Bar.
The whole house shook in South, went into fight mode,’ one person wrote on Facebook.
‘I felt it here in Marble Bar, two trees across the road came crashing down,’ another person wrote.
The first 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck Port Hedland in Western Australia ‘s Pilbara region at 8.44am on Wednesday
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