THE Somerset region isn't famous for nightlife on Thursdays, but last night it played host to an earth-shaking event.
A small earthquake hit the area, about 100 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, at 5.29pm.
It was a 2.8 magnitude tremor with an epicentre closest to the town of Toogoolawah, according to Geosciences Australia.
Thursday night's minor earthquake was felt in the Somerset town of Kilcoy, where Anne Barradeen was taking a casserole out of the oven.
"I thought I'd hit the stove but my husband said 'No, it was bigger than that because the whole house shook'," Ms Barradeen said.
"The house just tremored...it was just like a thud. It was instantaneous, as if something ran into the house.
Ms Barradeen said she had lived in the area for four years and had not felt an earthquake.
On Facebook, Toogoolawah resident Desley Williams said she also felt something odd about 5.30pm.
"But I thought it was something crashing into the roof," she wrote.
Another said he felt the tremor in Samford.
Generally earthquakes need to be about a magnitude 5 to cause damage to buildings.
Christchurch's devastating 2011 earthquake, which killed 185, was a 6.3 magnitude aftershock which followed a less-damaging 7.0 earthquake about six months earlier.
