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The epicentre of Saturday morning’s earthquake was east of Murgon and south of Kilkivan (Map: Geoscience Australia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

August 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake south of Kilkivan shook residents across the South Burnett on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Geoscience Australia reported the quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres at longitude 152.27 and latitude -26.24.<\/p>\n

This is in an area east of Murgon and south-east of Goomeri.<\/p>\n

The quake was detected at 9:49am.<\/p>\n

By 10:00am, more than 180 reports of shaking had been received by Geoscience Australia.<\/p>\n

By 10:15am, this had risen to more than 6500 reports.<\/p>\n

Reports of damage are starting to come in.<\/p>\n

A Yarraman resident,\u00a0Tom Brierley, said after he felt the earthquake, he went outside his house to see what was happening.<\/p>\n

He found “a big gap” had opened up between his front wall and roof.<\/p>\n

A widespread power outage, affecting more than 6500 Ergon Energy, customers coincided with the earthquake.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The area blacked out was from just north of Kingaroy to west of Durong, east of Goomeri and south of Ban Ban Springs.<\/p>\n

At 11:30am, the area was still without power as Ergon crews worked to locate the damage.<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: The epicentre has been updated to longitude 152.19 and latitude -26.26, ie. south-west of Kinbombi.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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