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June 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Bad luck: After copping floods last year, Gunnedah has experienced earthquakes. Picture: Peter Lorimer.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
A SMALL earthquake in the state’s north tonight had local police inundated with phone calls, with many people concerned the rattling of windows and doors was the work of home invaders.
According to Geoscience Australia the magnitude 4.2 quake struck at about 9.30pm, with residents in the Manilla, Tamworth and Gunnedah areas reporting shaking.
The organisation said the quake occurred at a depth of 17km and could be felt almost 60km away.
The quake came in the form of two separate bursts, with some people reporting that two explosions had occurred.
Local police said they had been inundated with calls – with lines jammed for about 20 minutes following the quake – but that there had been no reports of damage.
Many of the callers believed someone was trying to break into their homes because they could hear windows shaking.
According to Geoscience Australia it was the tenth tremor recorded in mainland Australia this week.
The Australian Seismological Centre’s director Kevin McCue said these were the first earthquakes greater than magnitude 4 to strike inland northern NSW since December 1969, when a magnitude 5 quake struck near Coonabarabran.
Mr McCue said the Friday night quakes were felt as far as Coonabarabran, 120km from the epicentre, as well as in Tamworth and Gunnedah.
“I was talking to people up there. All the glass was jiggling in cupboards,” he told AAP.
“It’s unusual to have an earthquake of this size.”
He said it’s unlikely the quakes caused structural damage to homes in major towns, but some may have cracked walls or chimneys.
Twitter accounts have come in from Tamworth, Manilla and Gunnedah.
Seismologist Dr Michael Phillips, who lives 5km from Coonabarabran, said his wife Claire Milton, a doctor, and their eight-year-old son Max felt the earthquakes in their farmhouse.
“They heard and felt it,” he told AAP.
“The china in the cabinet was rattling and my son’s bunk bed was banging on the wall.
“The whole house was rattling and shaking – it lasted 30 seconds.”
Dr Phillips, who is also a physicist, said the size of the earthquakes had overwhelmed his seismological measuring equipment.
“It was too much for the instrument,” Dr Phillips said, adding it was likely that one of the earthquakes was an aftershock.
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