The town of Esterhazy, SK, which is about 80 kilometres southwest of Russell, experienced an earthquake last night.

The 4.1 magnitude quake shook the town for a couple of minutes around 8:30.

The epicentre was 5 kilometres from a nearby potash mine, causing miners to head to refuge stations as a precaution.

A few minutes after the quake, power went out for two and a half hours.

SaskPower has said the earthquake affected the transmission system in the area but they aren't sure how badly.

There weren't any reported injuries.

This isn't the first time there's been an earthquake in the area, in fact, 17 have hit since 1981 with the last one being in 2016.