00:02Earthquakes have become a daily occurrence in the Narangarub area for at least a month.
00:07Tim House's farm is a hotspot.
00:09We've noticed probably 10 to 12 every day, but I think they're recording many more than that, that we can't
00:15feel.
00:15There have been more than 70 earthquakes in the region during February alone.
00:19The largest was a magnitude of 3.1.
00:22Pretty scary, one woke us up the other night and the plates on the sink rattled
00:27and that was a bit more like an earthquake you'd see in a movie, but it's very short and sharp.
00:33We refer to these as earthquake swarms where you get an increase in activity
00:38that can persist for days, weeks, months and even years.
00:43There's been no damage reported, but the cause of the quakes is unclear.
00:47To get earthquakes in the middle of the Yilgarn Kraton,
00:49so one of the oldest, strongest geological units here in Australia,
00:53an engine block of the continent, that is unusual and it's puzzling.
00:57Extra monitoring equipment has been installed to gather more data.
01:00When something significant like this happens, we get on the ground and we densify that network
01:06and it's just, it's triangulation to find the epicentres and the depths.
01:10So the more stations you have in the vicinity, the better you can nail down the actual epicentres
01:15and better understand ultimately what's going on.
01:18Seismologists say a large earthquake is unlikely, but expect tremors to continue in this region for some time to come.
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