Did the earth move for you?
Earth tremor in Melbourne just before 9:00pm tonight. Shook the house quite a bit!
First information via twitter
Took a while for the news service to catch up
Herald Sun: “BREAKING NEWS: RESIDENTS across Melbourne have reported feeling the earth tremble as a quake appears to shakes the city.”
The Australian: A 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck Melbourne on Sunday night only eight kilometres south east of the city’s CBD – the latest in a series of quakes to hit Australia.
The Age: Householders from Reservoir, in the city’s north, to Kew and Cheltenham, southeast of Melbourne, said they felt the tremor – which lasted a few seconds – shortly before 9pm (AEDT), on Friday.
Announcements via 774 radio that there are no reported injuries and not to call 000
From the U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center;
Earthquake Details
Magnitude: 4.7
Date-Time:
* Friday, March 06, 2009 at 09:55:38 UTC
* Friday, March 06, 2009 at 08:55:38 PM at epicenter
Location 38.377°S, 145.714°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA
Distances
* 96 km (59 miles) SE (137°) from Melbourne, Australia
* 458 km (284 miles) SW (221°) from CANBERRA, Australia
Location Uncertainty: horizontal +/- 15.7 km (9.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 9, Nph= 9, Dmin=448.6 km, Rmss=1.09 sec, Gp=137°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source:
* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID: us2009dwau
On Twitter, @theamazingkim was able to quickly see the funnier side of things;
Seismologists say the type of earthquake that rocked Melbourne last night is relatively uncommon.
The tremor – measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale – struck near Korumburra in South Gippsland just before 9:00pm AEDT.
There have been no reports of major damage.
– Vic tremor ‘relatively uncommon’ (2009-Mar-07) [ABC News]
Yep, felt it to. Was sitting watching TV and the sofa started shaking from side to side. I glanced around the room and the rest of the furniture was shaking. This was in Port Melbourne.
You wonder bush fire, drought, and tremor??? What do we need to change?? What is it going to be like for our children in 10 years?? We need to loook after our land!
Yep, felt it in Pakenham & family members in Foster also felt it.
FOREST HILL SHOPPING CENTRE – PANCAKE PARLOR FLOOR MOVED.
TREMOR IN TEMPLESTOWE
Yeah i felt it! lol i thought it was a ghost and just ignored it! I’ve been watching too much “A Haunting” on Youtube..
felt it in st. albans
I’m in Windsor btw
I felt it too, was sitting on my bed when it happened… went on for round 5 seconds. Felt a strong vibration in the floor and furniture started shaking. This was in the city.
Heard it in lynbrook, went for about 20 seconds, thought it was the back neighbour with his motorbikes, but when the doors were trembling, was obvious it was an earth tremour.
Cheltenham was shaking, felt the house shake for a few seconds. Friends in beaumaris phoned to say they felt it too.
Felt it in Box Hill at 8.56pm. Lasted 2-3 seconds.
Felt it in Mulgrave/Springvale for 5 seconds. I’m sure there was a small aftershock about 5mins after but it was very light.
I felt it in Glen Iris, the house and windows were shaking, only lasted about 10 sec but never felt anything like it
Girls Boarding House got a terrible scare!
Lots of people were away because of the long weekend, but about 20 girls were in the house….
Some girls were in the loungeroom and felt the windows and doors shake, but they thought it was just our washing machines!!
Some girls thougth a plane was going to crash on the boarding house, but were relived it was nothing!
Some girls came running down the stairs and wondering what that tremor was…but it was weird, because the boarding house mistress and some girls in the centre of the boarding house didn’t feel a thing!
Everyone was calling, checking the internet and going on facebook to see if any of there friends had been affected!
It was a major scare…..but everyone is alright!
I live in Kilsyth and the house rattled it was a loud rumble. thought a helicopter was flying low overhead until daughter rang to say we had earth quake. children in healesville heard it as well
I’m in Narre waren, I did some checking and the U.S says it was 4.7 magnitude, and after working out longitude and latitude based on their info, found the epicentre to be very close to labertouche where the bushfires were only a few weeks ago. Bad luck hey.
I felt it in Prahran for a few seconds. Quite a weird feeling. The world is changing.
Matthew 24 in the bible talks about this kind of thing happening just before Jesus returns. Makes you think there might be something in that. Might be closer thank people think.
i totally agree with you. every day i ask my self what more signs is god going to give today. because it is getting worse every day. don’t peole realise it?
Felt that stuff up in the hills while playing Xbox 360… freaky!
We are in Reservoir, felt it also just sitting around and house totally shook. Was really freaky and scary!! Went on for a few seconds just before 9 pm…
from ferntree gully, melbourne .
on home alone, on treadmill, book fell from shelf, light shook, we all nearly died !!!!! LOL
that wasnt a joke except we never died
bit sus, no fault lines under melbourne. Looks like another weather modification device (harrp system) induce drought cause earthquakes in order t o make their human caused global warming theory look believable. Emissions trading scheme here we come.
In the Dromana Hills on the Mornington Peninsula, the house shook quite violently for several seconds. Strangely, the motion seemed to be in several directions and there seemed to be no sound.
Felt it in Warragul.
Watching the Collingwood V Essendon NAB Semi-Final
The ground went -shakity shakity shake-
and a vase was movingtowards the edge of a table shaking back and forth.
a big cabinet loooked like it was gonna tip.
some people thought the roof would come down.
Warragul is close to the epiccentre
it was actually fun now as long as they r not too big or anything
4.8
MY FIRST EARTH TREMOR OR EARTH QUAKE IN MELBOURNE WARRAGUL ETC 9:26PM AEDT APROX\. 4.8 MAGNITUDE
March 7th Here in Monbulk .. sitting at my desk felt the whole house begin to groan and start to rumble / shudder .. lasted about 4 seconds .. then it did it again a few seconds after for about 3 seconds. Very very scary!
March 8th …Can anyone confirm if there was another smaller tremor TODAY 8th March at about 12.12pm .. back sitting at my desk (maybe this is a big sign to stop working and back away from my desk??) but I felt the same movement of the floor and my desk .. not as severe as yesterday and only for about 3 seconds.
Maybe it’s just my imagination but it was a rockin again…just gently.
05-JUN-2011
A 4.4 Magnitude quake has struck south of Melbourne this morning; tremors throughout Melbourne and the rest of the state. No reports of damage. Tremor lasted 15 seconds.
http://visibleprocrastinations.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/did-the-eartyh-move-for-you/