<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327433</docID> <postdate>2024-08-23 13:24:24</postdate> <headline>‘Whole house rattled’: earthquake felt by thousands</headline> <body><p><img class="wp-image-327434" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20210922001578664441-original-1.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>A magnitude-five earthquake has shaken a swathe of NSW. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">By <b>Alex Mitchell</b> in Sydney</span></p> <p><strong>Thousands of people have reported feeling an earthquake over an area spanning hundreds of kilometres from south of Sydney to the NSW mid-north coast.</strong></p> <p>The 5.0-magnitude quake hit Denman, around three hours north of Sydney in the upper Hunter region, at 12.02pm on Friday.</p> <p>More than 2000 people had reported feeling tremors in the following hour, including many residents more than 200km away in Sydney.</p> <p>A woman in Muswellbrook, about 20 minutes' drive from Denman, said there were multiple shocks from around midday.</p> <p>"There were two (and it was) not just a tremor, it was a massive earthquake," she told Sydney radio 2GB.</p> <p>"The whole house rattled, and then about half a minute later, it rattled again.</p> <p>"I actually thought it was my new kitten knocking down some things."</p> <p>A man more than three hours' drive away at Cranebrook in western Sydney also felt multiple shocks, but said the earthquake "wasn't massive".</p> <p>The Bureau of Meteorology said there was no tsunami threat due to the earthquake.</p> </body>