A mysterious ‘explosion’ has rocked Perth with residents confused over what caused it.
Perth locals claimed to have felt tremors and heard a loud noise shortly after 11am AWST on Wednesday.
Perth Weather Live received almost 1,000 comments reporting the incident and added there were no reported earthquakes in the area.
Geoscience Australia further clarified the event was not seismic activity.
‘Geoscience Australia received multiple felt reports from Perth, WA, at around 11:20am, however no seismic event was observed,’ it said.
However, the finding only left residents more confused.
‘We felt it here in Hamilton Hill, sounded like something massive dropped on our roof and a split second tremor was felt,’ one woman said.
Another person said: ‘I’m in Port Kennedy my whole house was shaking and heard bangs.’
It is understood emergency services have not attended any ‘explosions’ in the Perth area.
One south Perth woman reported hearing a loud ‘boom’ off the coast.
Perth locals claimed to have felt tremors and heard a loud noise shortly after 11am AWST on Wednesday
‘We saw other neighbours going out onto balcony to look for smoke or something … People felt it and heard it,’ she said
‘Where I was, I was quite high up and you can see all the way down the coast to Rockingham, the Port and Kwinana.
‘It sounded like it was coming from the water and from the coastline, it sounded like it could have come from Rottnest Island.
‘It was so weird. It was a boom, it lasted like a second. It vibrated as well. It didn’t feel like an earthquake, it felt like something had exploded, but there was no smoke.’
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