Melbourne Tremor, 4.7 on the Richter scale
Melbourne was just hit by a tremor (I think for it to be an earthquake the ground has to actually split). Apparently it was fairly widespread and lasted from between 10-20 seconds. I was in acland st st. kilda and didn’t feel a thing, though I might have been too tipsy to notice.
You’d think they’d be able to predict stuff like this or at least make us aware. How the hell does a tremor just sneak up on a major capital city…?
The Age is reporting “the tremor was felt at 8.55pm and measured 4.7 on the Richter Scale, according to the US Geological Survey. It was centered 5.5km north-west of Korumburra in South Gippsland and was 8km deep.” Geez 4.7, from bushfires to tremors, we dont do anything in small numbers in victoria. Maybe we’ll change our numberplates to ‘Victoria – The Natural Disaster State’.
Local accounts are starting to trickle in, seems I must have been the only person in melbourne who didn’t feel it.
Scrimple writes;
he bushfire threat was over and we could go back to some normality. But guess what? Yes, an earthquake in Warburton, well an earth tremor really but it was serious enough for me to get under a doorway. The house shook with gusto.
Visibile Procrastinations concurs;
Earth tremor in Melbourne just before 9:00pm tonight. Shook the house quite a bit!
Ok starting to feel a little more then left out here.
Alan Donaldson describes it from his home:
Alan & I were sitting on the sofa feeding Ruby & Poppy (Alan with the obligatory glass of wine in one hand!) when we started to feel the house shake, it got worse for a few seconds then it was all over. A very strange feeling and I certainly wouldn’t like to imagine how a serious one feels.
At least you felt something. I don’t want to die not knowing what an earthquake feels like, CMON I WANT SOMETHING TO TELL MY GRANDKIDS!
The more I read about it the more depressed I feel having felt absolutely nothing despite being outside.
Fmat rubs it in;
Upstairs with guitar on my thigh, looking idly at the computer, I thought my back was spasming out of control and my wonky chair was transmitting strange forces to the floor and through the room.
But when I heard the walls shaking I decided it had to be my first earth tremor, and I just had to be upstairs when it happened, I thought I was going to fall through the floor.
Then there’s the family reactions from JingWen;
My mum panicked, my father shrugged, my brother started screaming “I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die!”. And me? I jumped online to blog about it, because that’s the way I roll.
I would have loved to have seen my goldfish freak out with their little tsunamis in their tank.
Stupid mother nature. DO IT AGAIN SO I CAN FEEL IT THIS TIME! Feeling so totally ripped off at the moment.
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