A strong earthquake has affected one of Australia’s closest neighbors.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook the eastern tip of Timor-Leste at a depth of 65 km on Friday afternoon, according to Geoscience Australia.
The Bureau of Meteorology said there were no tsunami threats in Australia as a result of the quake.
About an hour earlier, a magnitude 2.5 earthquake shook Tennant Creek at a depth of 5 km in the Northern Territory.
A map showing where the epicenter of the earthquake is in relation to Australia. Credit: USGS
Darwin residents reported both tremors.
“The last earthquake just shook the windows, this time the whole building shook,” one person said on Twitter.
East Timor is located in the seismically active “Ring of Fire”, a 40,000 km arc of volcanoes and ocean trenches that cover much of the Pacific Ocean.