Resident 'thankful' to no home damage after 5.6 earthquake north of Brisbane

The ABC spoke to Kilkivan resident Lucinda Ross in the town where the Brisbane earthquake struck. She says she is thankful her home isn't damaged.

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00:00It was a bit of an interesting start to our Saturday morning.

00:05My husband and I were just in our house.

00:07We live in a beautiful 100-year-old Queenslander here

00:11that we run as a bed and breakfast.

00:13And so we were kind of prepping for some guests that we have staying

00:16and then all of a sudden the house just started absolutely shaking

00:20and jolting.

00:21It's like nothing I've ever felt before.

00:25And, yeah, we kind of started second-guessing ourselves

00:28and were running around thinking, was that an earthquake or not?

00:32And then the calls and texts started coming from people

00:34who had heard that an earthquake had hit.

00:37So we kind of realised it was, in fact, an earthquake.

00:40Was there any damage to your place?

00:44No damage, but we did have a good look around after everything stopped

00:50because the house was shaking for probably about seven seconds.

00:54And so we had a good look around afterwards and checked windows,

00:58we've got these old stained-glass windows in the house

01:00that we were a bit worried about.

01:02Thankfully, nothing we can see has been damaged.

01:05But, yeah, really incredible to feel actually the force of the shaking.

01:11It was, yeah, truly, I've never experienced anything like it.

01:15Absolutely.

01:15And those few seconds can sort of feel like an eternity in the time.

01:20Have you felt any aftershocks since?

01:22Nothing at all, which, yeah, I was expecting maybe something else,

01:28but it was truly just about seven seconds of shaking and that was it.

01:33So we'll see if anything else happens later in the day.

01:37Absolutely.

01:38Well, I'm glad to hear there's no damage and no injuries there for you.

01:41Lucinda Ross, thank you so much for your time this morning.