we live in such a boring place, we just had a tremor, at around 8:53pm
the kids were screaming and crying and thought the earth would crack open and our house will fall into the lava poor little guys!!!
The house shook for about 10 seconds and all the dogs in the street were barking their heads off and my mother in-law rang me to shout at me

ZombieKitten said:

I think your kids have seen too much TV (get them to watch Volcano with Anne Heche and Tommy Lee Jones - great disaster movie.

HAHAHAHA

why is melbourne so incident packed at the moment?? It probably misses me

PREDOMINANT said:

naah it's not telly, they don't know how to switch it on really we are in need of a universal remote

xperience319 said:

where are you at the moment?

ZombieKitten said:

My little one knows his numbers FROM the remote, he calls 1 "number news", 2 is "c-beebies", 3 is "adverts" and 4 is "Simpsons".

ZombieKitten said:

torino, home in 4 days!

PREDOMINANT said:

since we don't have cable TV, we have fuck all to watch here, they know if it's not rated G it's only for grown ups, they are sticklers for the ratings system

xperience319 said:

like in Italy?!

(well, sounds Italian )

ZombieKitten said:

yep, been here since december.

There were quite a few today
Still waiting for the update to include this last one


M 5.1, Tonga
March 06, 2009 08:21:25 GMT, 2009-03-06, 0:21:25

M 2.9, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
March 06, 2009 08:03:54 GMT, 2009-03-06, 0:03:54

M 4.9, Samoa Islands region
March 06, 2009 07:24:07 GMT, 2009-03-05, 23:24:07

M 2.8, Northern California
March 06, 2009 07:08:17 GMT, 2009-03-05, 23:08:17

M 5.6, Tonga
March 06, 2009 07:01:49 GMT, 2009-03-05, 23:01:49

M 4.6, Fiji region
March 06, 2009 07:00:04 GMT, 2009-03-05, 23:00:04

M 4.5, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
March 06, 2009 06:16:17 GMT, 2009-03-05, 22:16:17

M 2.5, northern Alaska
March 06, 2009 06:01:56 GMT, 2009-03-05, 22:01:56

M 3.1, Puerto Rico region
March 06, 2009 04:43:47 GMT, 2009-03-05, 20:43:47

M 3.1, Puerto Rico region
March 06, 2009 04:08:58 GMT, 2009-03-05, 20:08:58

M 5.1, Western Australia
March 06, 2009 01:35:57 GMT, 2009-03-05, 17:35:57

M 3.1, Virgin Islands region
March 06, 2009 00:30:28 GMT, 2009-03-05, 16:30:28

M 3.8, Dominican Republic region
March 06, 2009 00:09:27 GMT, 2009-03-05, 16:09:27

ZombieKitten said:

Us neither, (at least not that he can operate) 4 terrestrial channels, and that it.

ZombieKitten said:

These are all recorded quakes

PREDOMINANT said:

just for today

doesn't include this last one yet, I think that the geophysicist dudes have gone out for drinks

ZombieKitten said:

Where are the geo dudes? Coffee and ciggarettes?

I am a little shocked - if you excuse the pun - that there are so many.

PREDOMINANT said:

these aren't real "quakes" as such, just seizmic activity

there are loads, and yes it shocked me too

when does it become a real earthquake, richter scale reading of what, over 6? 7? 8?

http://home.iprimus.com.a...isday.html
here, there are loads each day it seems

Earth tremor rocks Melbourne

Updated: 21:24, Friday March 6, 2009
The centre of Melbourne has been rocked by an earth tremor, with 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.

told ya, they're all on Friday night drinks!!!!

i feel the earth

move

under my feet i feel the sky come tumbling down

whenever your arouououououououound

earth tremor??

is that a metaphor??

ZombieKitten said:

It's just the Earth breathing...

...Every now and then it clears it's throat...

...Sometimes has a cough...

...Sometimes catches a cold...

...and on rare occasions has the flu...

...God help us if it gets pneumonia

roodboi said:

I get aftershocks

Steadwood said:

It's probably more like when those frost free fridges do whatever it is they do to stop themselves icing over all sorts of crackling and groaning comes out of the freezer

Suburbs in Melbourne's north and north-east have reportedly been shaken by an earthquake.

The United States Geological Survey reported on its website the tremor was a magnitude 4.7 quake, about 96 kilometres from Melbourne.

Geoscience Australia says the tremor was located north of Korumburra.

There have been no reports of injury and police are urging people not to call 000 unless they have been injured or suffered property damage.

Victoria Police and the State Emergency Service also say there has been an earth tremor but said there are no reports of any damage so far.

James Sandman of Drouin, in Victoria's east, was watching TV when the tremor struck.

"We were just sitting down watching the TV and then the whole house absolutely shook," he said.

"The foundations shook, the walls moved, they wobbled, and myself and my wife just looked at each other and we were both then looked at the exits wondering 'do we need to get out?'"

Reports to ABC News Online say the suburbs of Frankston, Knoxfield, Lang Lang, Caulfield North and Yarra Junction have felt tremors.

"We just felt an earth tremor in Yarra Junction Victoria at 8.56pm (AEDT)," one reader said.

"It seemed to travel from west to east."

"We are in Gippsland in Krowera, and the earth tremor sounded like an explosion here," another reader said.

"[It] felt like something very big had hit the house. Our power also went out for about eight to 10 minutes."

Reader Jacob Murray-White shared his experience during the tremor.

"We live in Brunswick and it felt like a very long truck was driving past or maybe the washing machine getting extremely excited," he said.

"[For] 10 to 15 seconds ... the wall and associated fittings [shook] quite noticeably.

"Funnily enough, I looked at decanter of booze and it was not shaking which was a surprise, given my experiences of quakes and tremors in Los Angeles."

Stephanie Pradier said it was over as quick as it started.

"We could hear it first, then we felt it, it stopped for a second and then was much more violent," she said.

"My stomach dropped to my feet, I have never felt anything quite like it.

"We went and stood under the door frame. It just kept going.

"Most the neighbours in my street were out of their houses. We all had a chat, now life [is] back to normal."

Kim from Reservoir also wrote in.

"My partner and I were watching TV when we what felt like a huge gust of wind hit the house," he said.

"There was a pause and then there was another tremor which was much stronger than the first and caused shaking of the house. Cabinets, photo frames all moved.

"The second time we felt it there was no mistaking it was an earthquake! Freaky!"

Kate Bruce said she lives in a new estate in Doreen.

"Being so close to the fire areas and having been on alert the last two to three weeks, our only thought was 'oh my God, what now?'" she said.

"My kids though that the roof was coming off, that's how loud it was here."

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

- ABC/AAP


pissweak!!!!

Earthquake Details
Magnitude: 4.7
Date-Time:
* Friday, March 06, 2009 at 09:55:38 UTC
* Friday, March 06, 2009 at 08:55:38 PM at epicenter
Location 38.377°S, 145.714°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA
Distances
* 96 km (59 miles) SE (137°) from Melbourne, Australia
* 458 km (284 miles) SW (221°) from CANBERRA, Australia
Location Uncertainty: horizontal +/- 15.7 km (9.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 9, Nph= 9, Dmin=448.6 km, Rmss=1.09 sec, Gp=137°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source:
* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID: us2009dwau


anyway the org heard it first

OK, well SECOND

after all the twits on twitter

ZombieKitten said:

I get somewhat uncontrollable eruptions...

ZombieKitten said:

Oh is that what that sound from the freezer is...

...I just thought it was my ex defrosting

roodboi said:

omg

Steadwood said:

was your ex a rice crispie?!

ZombieKitten said:

Nah... More of a fish finger