<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An earthquake rattled hundreds of homes in the Adelaide Hills and surrounding regions last night, with one resident saying it felt like a bomb had gone off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The tremor in Strathalbyn late last night, which registered 2.8 on the Richter scale, was felt widely, with reports coming from as far away as Meninge and Angle Vale. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Geoscience Australia received over 1000 reports regarding the event.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/nab-customers-selfie-to-confirm-identity-banking-app/5d5e9718-089b-41d3-88f0-51fa566ea5aa"><strong><span>One of Australia's biggest banks will soon ask customers for a selfie</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Residents in Strathalbyn were preparing for sleep when the ground began to shake. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I didn't see anything but I felt… I thought it was a bomb (going) off. I wasn't sure what it was," local resident Robert Westley said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another resident, Peter Fergusson, described the experience, saying, "the house rumbled and shook and we've got an old bluestone so it must have been pretty deep and pretty high".</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/adelaide-hills-earthquake/0a8de166-3301-4a91-90fc-1a4d56c97ff7" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"These smaller earthquakes tend to present as kind of a loud bang or a deep sort of rumble," Johnathan Bathgate of Geoscience Australia said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/erin-patterson-presentence-hearing-mushroom-murder-victims-tell-court-of-their-pain/009808fc-df65-476d-8ec5-e91ec07c7519"><strong><span>'Unimaginable horror': Families of mushroom murder victims tell court of their pain</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While last night's earthquake was minor, South Australia has experienced more significant seismic events in the past. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The state's most severe earthquake occurred in 1954, resulting in millions of dollars in damage. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That was certainly one of the most significant earthquakes to occur in a populated centre in Australian recent history," Bathgate said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of</span></em><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>