![The site of the recorded earthquake according to Geoscience Australia.
The site of the recorded earthquake according to Geoscience Australia.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/172369331/831cf032-d190-479b-b25e-3364ce2bbdbc.jpg/r2_0_786_441_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Did you feel the earth move yesterday?
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If you did that was because a small earthquake was recorded at Karuah.
The magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded by Geoscience Australia on Sunday, March 3 at a depth of 10 kilometres.
It was picked up by multiple monitoring stations across NSW.
According to database.earth, a previous earthquake was recorded at Karuah three years ago, with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale and a depth of 16.05 kilometres.
The strongest earthquake recorded near Karuah was a 5.40 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 10.0 kilometres which occurred 34 years ago.