Residents reported their homes shaking about 9.30pm yesterday in Townsville, with small tremors felt by residents as far north as Cairns and south as Mackay.

Experts say this week's seismic activity is unusual, but the region has a pattern of large and clustered earthquakes.

FOUR firefighters and a policeman were among eight people injured when a truck carrying 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded on the Mitchell Highway, about 30km south of Charleville in southwest ...