Wednesday, April 20

Quake rocks our world

It was a Saturday afternoon like any other - until 3.31pm when the Whitsunday region was shaken up - quite literally.
Seismologist with Geoscience Australia Jonathon Bathgate said the rare Queensland earthquake, measuring a revised 5.3 on the Richter scale, was felt over a radius of 228km from its epicentre 60km west of Bowen.
To read more on this and other local news stories pick up a copy of the Whitsunday Coast Guardian, available now from leading news agencies, service stations, Coles (Cannonvale) and the Chapman Street office in Proserpine.

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