Geoscience Australia has received six reports so far of people who felt the earthquake, which hit a 10km ocean depth about 260km from Albany.

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has been recorded off the coast of Western Australia. The quake was detected 260km from Albany on the southern coast of WA at a depth of 10km at 10.45am local time on Thursday.

An emperor penguin journeyed over 2,000 miles from Antarctica to an Australian beach, marking a possible first for the species on the continent.