August 16, 2025
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake south of Kilkivan shook residents across the South Burnett on Saturday morning.
Geoscience Australia reported the quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres at longitude 152.27 and latitude -26.24.
This is in an area east of Murgon and south-east of Goomeri.
The quake was detected at 9:49am.
By 10:00am, more than 180 reports of shaking had been received by Geoscience Australia.
By 10:15am, this had risen to more than 6500 reports.
Reports of damage are starting to come in.
A Yarraman resident, Tom Brierley, said after he felt the earthquake, he went outside his house to see what was happening.
He found “a big gap” had opened up between his front wall and roof.
A widespread power outage, affecting more than 6500 Ergon Energy, customers coincided with the earthquake.
The area blacked out was from just north of Kingaroy to west of Durong, east of Goomeri and south of Ban Ban Springs.
At 11:30am, the area was still without power as Ergon crews worked to locate the damage.
UPDATE 1: Geoscience Australia has updated the epicentre to closer to the Black Snake region, just west of Wrattens National Park, and the depth from 2km (as first reported) to 10km.
UPDATE 2: The epicentre has been updated to longitude 152.19 and latitude -26.26, ie. south-west of Kinbombi.
Yes, felt at 4410 at 9:50am. Plenty of sound and fury.
This was felt in Bracken Ridge 4017, too. Loungeroom windows were shaking for a few minutes. Received an alert on my phone about 10 minutes after experiencing it.
Felt at around 9:50am in Broadbeach/Gold Coast: Very new building, 18th floor. Very short, but significant shaking and slight cracking noises.
Yes, felt in 4670 at 9.50am. Definitely heard something.
Strong shacking here in Taabinga, about 20-30 seconds, but no damage. A bit scary
Felt at Tweed Heads close to the Queensland border.
Yes Felt at Caboolture – shook the chair I was sitting in as well as the house.
Third one I’ve been through in Australia – Ulverstone,Tas., Newcastle, NSW, and now SE Qld.
Gives you the shakes.
Power is out at my mum’s place in Hivesville after quake and I felt it very strongly at Aramara near Biggerden
Felt at Windera 4605. Whole house shook for approx 30 seconds. No damage. Power is still out.
Felt at Tinbeerwah 4563, the house shook pretty good for 30 seconds or so. The dogs didn’t like it one bit. lol
Yes quite strong at Nanango a lot of noise and roof shook. Lasted about 30 to 40 seconds. No damage and still have power.
Surreal shaking. In my Murgon home an incredibly loud noise, like a large truck coming down the driveway, startled me. Then the house shook and I really thought it was going to collapse. Fortunately there was no damage and it was over quickly, the only thing left shaking was me!
Was at work in Kingaroy when it happened. Was a bit scary the feeling of it all happening. Water in the fish tank rocked for a while
It sounded like a “jet crashing into the house” … the noise was defining .. The mild shaking transcended into violent waves. I no longer felt safe in the house, so I rushed outside into a large clear area … no powerlines, no trees, no building to fall. I sat comforting my terrified dog. There was another massively loud thunderous boom about 15 minutes after the waves stopped.