Magnitude 4.1 earthquake rocks Jamestown and surrounding areas in South Australia

South Australia has been rocked by a second earthquake since Monday.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit Jamestown, about 207km north of Adelaide, about 4pm on Wednesday.

According to Geoscience Australia, the quake measured at a depth of 1km.

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A total of 174 ‘felt reports’ have been registered so far.

Residents in the nearby towns of Laura, Mount Bryan, Spalding and Wirrabara wrote on social media that they felt the quake.

“(It) rattled everything on my sideboard … in Wirrabara,” one person said.

“We definitely felt it. Our whole house rattled for a good few seconds,” another wrote.

On Monday, residents across the Adelaide Hills and metropolitan areas were rocked by a 2.7-magnitude quake.

The epicentre was in the Mount Barker region and it measured at a depth of 10km.

Jamestown, with a population of 1500, recorded another earthquake in January this year. Over 120 people reported they felt the 3.5 magnitude earthquake.

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