River McCrossen
30 June 2025, 8:40 AM
The epicenter of the earthquake, represented with the yellow dot, and the Cobar station that recorded it, represented with a blue triangle. [IMAGE: Geoscience Australia]An earthquake monitoring station near Cobar picked up a 3.1 magnitude tremor at about 250 kilometres away on Saturday.
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The station detected the quake at around 1:35pm on 28 June, emanating from an epicentre approximately 35 kilometres southwest of the town of Wanaaring.
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So far no reports are on Geoscience Australia's 'Felt Grid,' which gathers public reports of feeling an earthquake.
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"Nothing was felt here," Wanaaring Store and Caravan Park owner Colin Brown said.
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"Nobody's mentioned it.
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"I did sort of read about it, but that was all."

The stations where the earthquake was detected. [SOURCE: Geoscience Australia]Â
The scientific research agency reported that the tremor went ten kilometres deep.
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Stations as far as 944 kilometres away detected it, including in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.