Earthquake in Melbourne

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Mar 6th 2009, 9:27 am

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Earthquake in Melbourne

About 20 mins ago we had a freaking Earthquake here! It seriously shook the house for about 3-4 seconds, literally felt like half the house shifted a couple of feet to one side and then back again.

Had reports from friends and people on BritVics who felt it from the CBD to as far as Mornington.

Wow

Mar 6th 2009, 9:30 am

robertnhelen

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You beat me to it Big Ape!!

Yeah really scary!!! all the pictures have gone out of level, the whole street came out

Mar 6th 2009, 9:31 am

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Couldn't feel a thing here. I could look out of the window to see if the frames on the new builds are level, if they are there must have been a quake

Mar 6th 2009, 9:34 am

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Scared the hell out of me - just settling the girls down to sleep and I thought all their trinkets were going to come off their shelves

I said all the rain after such a dry period had made the earth all wobbly

Mar 6th 2009, 9:35 am

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It's hitting the news now

http://www.theage.com.au/national/ea...0306-8rgc.html

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...88-661,00.html

Mar 6th 2009, 10:36 am

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Very strange sensation indeed!

Shook up my latte here in South Yarra....

Mar 6th 2009, 10:42 am

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Mar 6th 2009, 10:44 am

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Did'nt know they had earthquakes in Melbourne, never heard of one happening there before. Melbourne this years had Bushfires , record 46 degrees heatwave a drought and now an Earthquake , what next a volcano eruption.

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Mar 6th 2009, 10:52 am

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Re: Earthquake in Melbourne

Port Augusta .....SA Had one yesterday .........hope its not an omen....mm

Mar 7th 2009, 2:17 am

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Re: Earthquake in Melbourne

I was cooking dinner at the time, doing a stir fry, and all the food started jigging around in the pan. I was cooking kangaroo, but didn't expect it to be still jumping!

Mar 7th 2009, 2:40 am

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Originally Posted by mohogony

They happen everywhere - it's just that places like L.A., situated as they are right on the fault line between two tectonic plates - get 'em a lot worse. The UK gets nearly 300 earthquakes a year and every decade or so, one of those will be a five magnitude or higher. In fact there was a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in the north of England just last year.