TREMORS have rocked Queensland's Fraser Coast with residents reporting "a bit of a wobble" hitting the town of Maryborough.
The tremor was felt down to the Sunshine Coast, about 200 kilometres south from Maryborough, with one Fairfax Media journalist registering it at the southern end of Moreton Bay.
Geoscience Australia has confirmed that it was a 5.3 magnitude quake which hit 100 kilometres east of the Sunshine Coast at a depth of 50km at 9.41am.
That's the biggest earthquake to hit the area since 1901 when a 5.6 magnitude quake hit.
"My computer screen had a bit of a wobble and my chair had a bit of a wobble, but it was nothing really serious," Maryborough MP Bruce Saunder's community liaison officer Paul Fryer said.
"We're used to rocking out here in Maryborough, but it is not usually seismic activity."
Fairfax Media journalist Ben Grubb's father Mick was in Nambour at the time.
"It was shaking the floor. It shook the floor and things were moving on the desk.
"There was about four to five seconds of that and then it stopped. Then there was another small one for two or three seconds and another small one again. And then a faint one after that again.
"I was in a concrete building in Nambour. Everyone was looking at each other going: 'What the hell was that?'
"It felt like you were standing on jelly. The floor was moving."
The joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre says there is no threat of tsunami from an earthquake off the Queensland coast.
The centre said based on the magnitude and location of the quake, there was no threat to Australia's mainland, islands or territories.
Ergon has not had any reports of any major power outages.
Feeling the rumble
Reports are pouring in from people who felt the quake.
Majella Marsden said she and her husband felt the quake in Cotton Tree on the Sunshine Coast but initially thought it was a strong wind or someone moving a large industrial bin.
"It wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds I thought but you could definitely feel the rumble," she said.
Anthony Dawson had a similar experience in Glenwood, between Gympie and Maryborough.
"Our house was shaking for about ten seconds," he said.
"The windows were rattling and the floor was shuddering a bit"
