Tremor in Melbourne

[Gilly Fan]

Did anyone feel the tremor tonight?

It rated 4.7 on the richter scale. Felt the house shake, but at first I thought it was my cat. First tremor I've ever heard. It actually felt pretty cool.

But I couldn't imagine what a massive earthquake would do.

4.7 intensity earthquake felt across Melbourne and Victoria | Herald Sun

 

[Skater]

We had a 5.2 magnitude quake last year: BBC NEWS | England | Earthquake felt across much of UK

 

[Themer]

Lo, when we had that one last year my house shook quite badly. Twas quite funny really I was half asleep and had no idea what was happening

 

[Will_NA]

I slept through that earthquake. Shame as it's the only chance I'll have to experience it in a while.

 

[Kiko_97]

I slept through that one last year XD

 

[Cricketdude]

Massive earthquake felt in Tasmania - National - www.theage.com.au

"If it happened underneath a population centre in Australia, this would probably have destroyed a whole city," Dr Sinadinovski said.

"In terms of size, this could have been more than 30 times stronger than the Newcastle event of 1989."

You should read this. It measured 8.1 on the richter scale!

 

[aussie1st]

I actually saw people posting an earthquake hit during the cricket but I thought they were joking about. NZ have had tons of earthquakes with the most damaging one being in Naiper that registered 7.8 on the richter scale.