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Earthquake in Melbourne!

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had a couple of wines as usual last night...went to bed with a headache....never felt a thing...
but used to live up on the NSW / VIC border...every couple of years there would be tremors...under 5 scale...the house shook, glasses rattled, things moved...the earth moved....over in 30 seconds....

but what did worry me...the giant Hume Dam...20 minutes away...on the fault line...they had done scenarios...if the quake was big enough and broke the dam wall....the water would reach Melb in 30 minutes...

Hume Dam is over 300 klms in circumference....holds 5 times the size of Sydney Harbour
here is a link about the dam
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Lake_Hume
 
kincella said:
but what did worry me...the giant Hume Dam...20 minutes away...on the fault line...they had done scenarios...if the quake was big enough and broke the dam wall....the water would reach Melb in 30 minutes...
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Now that would be an interesting study to see. I can easily imagine it flooding through the Murray but can’t see how it would get to Melbourne given the river system layout and the Great Dividing Range in the way? Not that Melbournians would say no to a bit of water right about now.
 
Timmy, forget about it following the course of the river....it would be a wall of water flooding everything in its path....I have seen the models of how it would act....the wall is over 50 metres high x 1700 metres long...up on a hill...almost everything in its path that was lower than the wall would be hit...

I think only the Pretty Sally range of mountains would be safe
 
Smurf1976 said:
Drought, fires, water shortages, trains not running, blackouts and now an earth quake.
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And the rest of us knew it was a ****ty place to live before all that happened :p

Hope there's still stuff around when the F1 is on!! Do I get a refund on my booking if the hotel is destroyed before I get there?


Timmy said:
Now that would be an interesting study to see. I can easily imagine it flooding through the Murray but can’t see how it would get to Melbourne given the river system layout and the Great Dividing Range in the way? Not that Melbournians would say no to a bit of water right about now.
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Well it would put the fires out at least!
 
Yep I felt it, screens were shaking around and floor rattling, sent shivers up my spine.:eek::eek:
 
Victoria is about to be sucked into a black-hole... ;)

About time, nothing worthwhile there anyway... :p:
 
End of the world is nigh in Victoria. Over the past few months we've had extreme drought, extreme heat, severe bushfires, gale force winds, torrential rain, rolling blackouts, dust storms and earthquakes!
 
Junior said:
End of the world is nigh in Victoria. Over the past few months we've had extreme drought, extreme heat, severe bushfires, gale force winds, torrential rain, rolling blackouts, dust storms and earthquakes!
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And a visit from the Kruddster.
 
Usually you can find most recent info here but the nearest one to you lot was much farther north.



CanOz
 
Junior said:
End of the world is nigh in Victoria. Over the past few months we've had extreme drought, extreme heat, severe bushfires, gale force winds, torrential rain, rolling blackouts, dust storms and earthquakes!
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..and thats why Syd is better than melb :D
 

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