Sydney residents shaken awake by early morning earthquake in NSW Hunter Valley

Preliminary information indicates the 4.6-magnitude quake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km

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Aftershocks are expected from an earthquake that shook residents awake along a stretch of Australia's east coast.

The quake struck at 2.55am on Wednesday near Singleton in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, about 200km north of Sydney, Geoscience Australia seismologists said.

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