Earthquake strikes Port Hedland – with dozens waking up to the tremor

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck Port Hedland at a depth of 10 kilometres.

Dozens of people in Western Australia woke up to the tremor, which hit the state’s Pilbara region at 4:49 a.m. local time on Wednesday.

“I was fast asleep and woke up, not sure if it was a thud or an earthquake in the south,” one local wrote on social media.

“I definitely felt it, I thought a train crashed,” wrote a second.

A third commented: ‘Yes, I heard it more than felt it. And then a few smaller ones. Pets gone crazy’.

Dozens of Western Australians were woken by the shaking, which struck about 7.49am on Wednesday.

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