A 3.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked residents in NSW’s Hunter region.
The quake struck at 5.18am on Tuesday at a depth of 4km.
Up to 20 felt reports have been recorded in the country towns of Singleton and Broke as locals woke to the early morning tremors.
The event follows similar earthquakes recorded in recent months.
The region was shook by seismic activity August, September and November last year.
August’s tremor was the biggest earthquake to hit parts of the NSW Hunter region in 50 years.
The 5.0-magnitude quake shook the town of Denman at 12.02pm and prompted theories coal mining in the region was causing the activity.
‘It’s a little smaller than the Newcastle earthquake, and there was another one 5.3 (magnitude) in 1994,’ UNSW geophysicist Stuart Clark said of the event.
‘The cause is compressional forces across the continent but the trigger is potentially coal mining.’
A 3.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked residents in NSW’s Hunter region
The quake struck at 5.18am on Tuesday at a depth of 4km
