A light magnitude 2.7 earthquake hit 23 kilometres east of Gilgandra in the early hours of Thursday 24 April 2025.

The earthquake was recorded by seismic instruments based in Dubbo, Cobar, Lightning Ridge and Tamworth.

It came just shy of 24 hours after the 4.6 magnitude quake that shook people awake around Warkworth, near Singleton in the Hunter Valley at around 3am on 23 April.

The Warkworth quake was one of a eleven recorded with a magnitude of 3 or higher in the Hunter region in the past 12 months.

The Gilgandra quake was reported felt by some people near the epicenter, in a heavily timbered area north of the Castlereagh Highway towards Mendooran, close to the Boyben State Forest.

 The depth of the quake could not be determined, but is assumed to be shallow.

The Gilgandra quake was recorded by seismic instruments in areas from Broke and Tamworth to Cobar and Lightning Ridge. SOURCE: Geoscence Australia

In the past couple of years, the Western Plains news app has reported three earthquakes in our region:

• Goodooga/Weilmoringle, Tuesday 24 October 2023, 3.98 magnitude
• Tilpa, 29 August 2023, 3.1 magnitude
• Goodooga, 6 April 2023, 3.1 magnitude

In the past seven days five other earthquakes have been recorded in Australia.

Minor quakes with a magnitude of less than 3 occurred in South Australia (2), the Northern Territory (1) and Western Australia (2).

There were three larger quakes in W.A. last measuring between 3 and 3.3 magnitude.

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