A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck central west New South Wales (a state on Australia's east coast) on Tuesday evening, centred about 30km south-west of Orange near the Cadia goldmine at a shallow depth of 5km. Geoscience Australia logged more than 2,000 reports of shaking, with tremors felt as far as hundreds of kilometres away in coastal Batemans Bay. Senior seismologist Dr Phil Cummins described it as "a large earthquake for this area" — the most significant since a 4.3-magnitude event in 2017 — and said lighter aftershocks should be expected.