Residents of Darwin and much of the Top End have been jolted awake by violent shaking after a strong undersea earthquake off the Indonesian coast.
The powerful 7.6-magnitude quake struck in the Banda Sea near the Tanimbar Islands, east of Timor-Leste, about 3am local time on Tuesday, at a depth of about 90km.
A tremor was felt hundreds of kilometres away in Darwin, where many residents feared for their lives and evacuated apartment buildings.
