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Did we just have an earthquake?

AngryAnt

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Still reported as 6 at the epicentre. Strength was a 4 by the time it reached Melbourne. Think that a 5 would have felt 10 times stronger.

Yep, Richter scale is logarithmic so a 6 is ten times greater than a 5.
 

CarnTheTiges

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Mar 8, 2004
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I liked Titus O’Reilly’s comment that he fully expects Mt Dandenong to erupt some time today.
 
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Scoop

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Incredible today’s shake was strong as the quake that rocked Newcastle in 1989.

Just lucky the epicentre wasn’t in metro Melbourne.
 
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TigerForce

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Son back into his Docklands building after evacuation call.
We had to evacuate the building. Weird experience even watching two light poles near The Dump shake. I thought I was going to have a seizure. I thought this would've come from Moe/Morwell epicentre as they always are. How did Mansfield get this?
 
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LeeToRainesToRoach

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We had to evacuate the building. Weird experience even watching two light poles near The Dump shake. I thought I was going to have a seizure. I thought this would've come from Moe/Morwell epicentre as they always are. How did Mansfield get this?
The Victorian Alps are young in a geological sense and have faults running through them.
 
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Al Bundy

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We had to evacuate the building. Weird experience even watching two light poles near The Dump shake. I thought I was going to have a seizure. I thought this would've come from Moe/Morwell epicentre as they always are. How did Mansfield get this?
Did u see the videos at Bulla? i think
Security cameras footage of the slopes
 
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Panthera Tigris

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We had to evacuate the building. Weird experience even watching two light poles near The Dump shake. I thought I was going to have a seizure. I thought this would've come from Moe/Morwell epicentre as they always are. How did Mansfield get this?
What a shame the dump didn't collapse. I know starting an earthquake is an extreme measure to take by RFC management, to ensure we never have to play a home match there again. But you can only tell the AFL non-brains trust so many times that it isn't our home ground, without them listening, before a club needs to take matters into it's own hands.
 
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TigerForce

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What a shame the dump didn't collapse. I know starting an earthquake is an extreme measure to take by RFC management, to ensure we never have to play a home match there again. But you can only tell the AFL non-brains trust so many times that it isn't our home ground, without them listening, before a club needs to take matters into it's own hands.
True. Isn't it due for a re-construction?
 

TigerForce

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Yeah. 7.8 on the wreckd' em scale is one seriously fat quake. News tonight already running with over 500 dead n the count n clean up is only just starting, gunna be a hell of a mess.
Yep. Happened at 4:00am when most were sleeping and no time to run out. Bloody terrible.
 

mrposhman

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Did anyone else just feel the earthquake just now in Vic?

My house shook (not for long) down here on the peninsula so I guess those of you nearer to the city would have felt it a lot more

Seems like it was north of the city where it hit.
 
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TigerForce

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Did anyone else just feel the earthquake just now in Vic?

My house shook (not for long) down here on the peninsula so I guess those of you nearer to the city would have felt it a lot more

Seems like it was north of the city where it hit.
I'm in the north. Felt and sounded like the roof was about to collapse.