Earthquake in Melbourne!

[ojm]

Whole house was just shaking. Sitting on the couch and was shaking. Windows shaking, tv wobbling.

In North Eastern suburbs, at Diamond Creek.

Was freaky as. Dogs weren't too happy. About 2 minutes ago. Am I tripping?

No link – yet. About 8:57pm.

 

[M34N]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25150188-661,00.html

That's all I got, I felt it too and it scared the living s**t out of me! I called some close family around the city and they all reported the same thing as me... very scary indeed!

Quake 'shakes Melbourne'

Staff writer

March 06, 2009 09:00pm

BREAKING NEWS: RESIDENTS across Melbourne have reported feeling the earth tremble as a quake appears to shakes the city.

Melburnians contacted the Herald Sun to report feeling the trembler from Carlton to Frankston.

The intesity of the tremor is not yet known.

MORE TO COME

 

[ojm]

news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25150188-661,00.html

You heard it here first

 

[gfresh]

That was just the sound of America collapsing.. nothing to see here, move along

 

[M34N]

That was just the sound of America collapsing.. nothing to see here, move along

LOL

Oh forgot to mention I am out east (Dandenong), called a few people who felt it in Prahran, Hallam, Mulgrave, Carrum Downs and Skye. All the neighbours also outside straight after the tremor, a lot of worried people!

Also found this on The Age just then:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/earth-tremor-rocks-metropolitan-melbourne-20090306-8rgc.html

Earth tremor rocks metropolitan Melbourne

* March 7, 2009 - 9:15PM

The centre of Melbourne has been rocked by an earth tremor, with worried residents reporting buildings shaking across the metropolitan area.

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.

A spokeswoman for Victoria Police also said there had been an earth tremor but said there were no reports of any damage immediately after the incident.

Further information and comment was being sought from Geoscience Australia, which monitors earthquake activity.

AAP

 

[ojm]

4.7 on the scale @ 38.377 °S, 145.714 °E.

maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=38.377 °S,+145.714 °E&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=84.355114,82.96875&ie=UTF8&ll=-38.373962,145.647812&spn=0.6196,0.648193&z=11&iwloc=addr

(can't post links yet).

 

[beerwm]

That was just the sound of America collapsing.. nothing to see here, move along

hahahaha,

good one

 

[OK2]

A bit more than a tremor, more like an earth quake.

 

[gav]

Yep, felt it here too in Carrum Downs. A friend in Armadale felt it too.

 

[drsmith]

That was just the sound of America collapsing.. nothing to see here, move along

It conicided with the Dow Futures changing course.

 

[Julia]

Gee whiz, Melbourne, as though you need an earthquake on top of searing temperatures, gale force winds, years long drought and unprecedented bushfires!

Is Melbourne on any known fault line? As a Kiwi, I was fairly used to this stuff but I'd never heard of Melbourne as being a known earthquake prone area.

It can be pretty scary the first time everything moves all around you.
Hope it was a one-off.

 

[trillionaire#1]

wow 4.7 quake !, heavy duty stuff for us aussies
L.A residents would probably yawn.

i remember feeling the earth move in the mid north of S.A
sometime in the 1990's .

its a pretty unnerving feeling.

 

[Smurf1976]

Drought, fires, water shortages, trains not running, blackouts and now an earth quake.

Will there be anything left of Melbourne in 3 months time when I'll next be there? Perhaps I should forget the hotel room and just bring a tent and some tins of baked beans... :

 

[Green08]

All you need to know about earthquakes in Australia.

http://www.ga.gov.au/hazards/earthquake/tools.jsp

sligthly delayed mapping of floods, earthquakes, and landslides.

 

[MACCA350]

Didn't notice anything here in Fawkner

cheers

 

[Big_Daz]

Felt something abnormal...didn't even think for a second it was an earthquake...

 

[OK2]

Drought, fires, water shortages, trains not running, blackouts and now an earth quake.

Will there be anything left of Melbourne in 3 months time when I'll next be there? Perhaps I should forget the hotel room and just bring a tent and some tins of baked beans... :

You only need to bring a Sherrin, footy season goes on regardless

 

[sam76]

Gee whiz, Melbourne, as though you need an earthquake on top of searing temperatures, gale force winds, years long drought and unprecedented bushfires!

Is Melbourne on any known fault line? As a Kiwi, I was fairly used to this stuff but I'd never heard of Melbourne as being a known earthquake prone area.

It can be pretty scary the first time everything moves all around you.
Hope it was a one-off.

did the earth move for you too Julia?

boom boom

 

[prawn_86]

Had a 4.5 tremor in the Riverland bout 10 yrs ago. Can still remember it, by the time we figured out what it was it stopped

 

[son of baglimit]

i was at docklands stadium and felt something, but grandstands often shake a little, so didnt think anything of it.

julia - in 1989 when newcastle rocked, i felt it in melbourne - the same fault runs from newcastle, thru western suburbs of melb, and out to the great ocean road.