A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Darwin, causing the ground under them to tremble for 30 seconds, according to residents.
According to GeoScience Australia, the earthquake’s epicentre was in East Timor, with vibrations reported as far away as the Red Centre in the Northern Territory.
Tennant Creek also had a magnitude 2.5 earthquake.
The Bureau of Meteorology reassured residents there was no active tsunami threat.
Locals took to social media saying they saw buildings shake and felt the ground tremble for half-a-minute.
‘Anyone else feel that earthquake in Darwin?’ one person wrote on Twitter.
Another added on Facebook: ‘Wow I just felt the earth move here in Darwin! An earthquake just shook our Office building here in Casuarina! Anyone else feel it?’
The house here in Darwin was rocking!’ one local wrote.
‘Hoping people in Timor have not experienced too much damage in that earthquake!’
Residents reported feeling tremors in Virginia, Nightcliff, Palmerston, Stuart Park and Darwin International Airport.
Locals took to social media saying they saw buildings shake and felt the ground tremble for half-a-minute
‘Just had an earthquake at Darwin. Just a little shake nothing to serious,’ a local wrote on Facebook.
Darwin has been rocked by several earthquakes in the past six months including a magnitude 7.3 that originated 250km north-east of Dili and 50km east of Indonesia’s Maluku islands in the Banda Sea in December.
A magnitude 6.0 was centred in the Banda Sea, 321km north-east of Dili, East Timor, and felt in the Northern Territory capital in February.