Last night, Australian landmarks including Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Luna Park Sydney, Brisbane’s Story Bridge, Melbourne’s AAMI Park, The Wheel of Brisbane and Perth’s Bell Tower, went dark for one hour at 8.30pm local time.
Initially it was recorded as 7.6 and 7.8. Since then, the PTWC has declared tsunami threat “largely passed”.
The NZ MetService has placed the entire North Island under preliminary wind watch for this Sunday, as Cyclone Vaianu travels down south after wreaking parts of Fiji.
https://www.times.co.nz/news/get-ready-for-cyclone-vaianu-now-before-it-arrives/
Love our Aussie centric news and how different we report things when it impacts another country, just “Aussie tourists warned of wet weekend” 
And like clockwork, social media is lit up with wild conspiracy theories…
I think it’s more a case of ancient oil refinery plant & equipment and/or possibly skimping on maintenance causing the fire. Shell Oil did sweat-the-asset before they flogged it off to VIVA.