ZombieKitten said:

somewhat uncontrollable doesn't = premature

Steadwood said:

crumby and orange

roodboi said:

did I say that?

I think thou dost protesteth too much!

or whatever shit they speak in ENGLAND LIKE PHIL

ZombieKitten said:

you said "shit...in ENGLAND LIKE PHIL"

roodboi said:

ZombieKitten said:

:nod

..and good with mushy peas

Didn't feel the earth move here and I'm in the NW suburbs of Melbourne. Stranger occurences have happened I suppose but thankfully Oz is rarely affected by earthquakes/tremors.

PanthaGirl said:

cause we're nowhere near any faultlines luckily

what were you doing at 8:53?

the master was driving to the city, felt nothing

my mother in law said she saw a motorcyclist get off his bike to feel it in Mulgrave

ZombieKitten said:

Wow some did some didn't, I wish I had felt the tremor.

8:53pm I was at the local Safeway doing some last minute shopping LOL!

PanthaGirl said:

M 4.7, near the southeast coast of Australia
March 06, 2009 09:55:38 GMT, 2009-03-06, 1:55:38

geodudes came back to work

I feel utterly cheated! Melbourne, Australia, right?

I'm pretty sure that's where I live?

I have some crockery that I hate. If I had've known, I could have placed them precariously on the edge of a table or something like that.

Seriously, this is the first I've heard of it.

TyphoonTip said:

where were you!!!! if you were in the car driving somewhere or in the supermarket like panthagirl, you wouldn't havefelt it

The earth moves - and ruins a perfectly good glass of red
Richard Macey and Jonathan Dart
March 7, 2009
AN earthquake that shook Victoria's Gippsland region, south-east of Melbourne, last night was the fifth to rattle the region in the last month.

The first four were all small, measuring about 3.0 on the Richter scale, said Kevin McCue, director of the private Australian Seismological Centre. But, the Canberra-based scientist added, "it made us wonder what was coming". Normally "you might have one [magnitude 3 quake] a year" in the area.

According to the United State Geological Survey, the latest quake struck at 8.55pm, 90 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, 10 kilometres underground.

Dr McCue described the Gippsland region as one of the most quake-prone regions of south-eastern Australia, despite being about 1500 kilometres from the boundaries of the nearest tectonic plates.

Stresses that built up around plate boundaries could travel towards the centre, triggering "intraplate" tremors. "It's like a pane of glass in a window being stressed on the edge … where it cracks is anyone's guess. In 1969 there was a 5.3 quake in the same area."

Yesterday's tremor was "about 1/30th of the energy of the Newcastle quake of 1989" and was too small to do any significant structural damage.

The epicentre was the township of Korumburra. A barmaid at the nearby Wonthaggi Hotel, Emma Wilson, said the building's foundations shook.

"We actually had people run out of the bistro because the glasses were shaking," she said.

Operator of the Korumburra Tourist Park, Grahame Brown, said the tremor lasted almost five seconds. "It shook the house, it shook like hell," he said. "We had a couple of paintings fall off [the wall], it shook a few of the ornaments around the place. One poor lady had a glass of red wine and lost it all on the front of her."

OK, that's a bit worrying

i love little earthquakes

ehuffnsd said:

do you have real earthquakes where you live?

ZombieKitten said:

San Diego isn't on any major fault lines. we've had a few 5s since i've been here. The San Andreas fault starts about 80 miles northeast of here and runs up to SF through LA. Now that's the real danger zone. I guess there is a 99% of a 7.0 or greater in the SoCal region in the next 30 years.

ZombieKitten said:

I was at home. (...There's a quick insight into how exciting my life is!) According to where people apparently felt the quake, then so should have I.

Now, normally I pride myself on being reasonably observant and aware of my surroundings, but If I can miss an E A R T H Q U A K E !, then maybe I'll have to re-evaluate.

TyphoonTip said:

what kind of flooring does your house have?

ZombieKitten said:

Brick house on concrete stumps. Plus we predominantly have floor boards, not carpet?

Well maybe I should be impressed that, without knowing it, we live in an 'tremor proof' house.

Friends in a neighbouring suburb (...supposedly further away from the epicentre than we are!) felt their windows rattle.

....although, come to think of it, that may be for completely different reasons.

TyphoonTip said:

that sounds like our place, except we have carpet

everything was rattling over here!

we just had another one this afternoon!

Further earth tremors are likely following a 4.5 magnitude earthquake that shook Melbourne and eastern Victoria on Wednesday.

The quake, the second felt by Melburnians in the past 12 days, occurred about 5km northeast of Korumburra, 100km southeast of Melbourne , at 4.28pm (AEDT).

The epicentre is in the same area of an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale that hit on March 6.

Wednesday's quake was felt across metropolitan Melbourne as far away as Bacchus Marsh, 50km west of Melbourne .

Geosciences Australia duty seismologist Steve Tathum said the event was one of five significant tremors centred on the same area near Korumburra in the past 12 days.

"Because this event has an equal magnitude to the March 6 quake it's not correct to say it is an aftershock. It's a significant event and you could say the earlier tremors were foreshocks," he said.

The second quake was one of the largest felt in the Melbourne area for 30 to 40 years, Mr Tathum said.

"We've had hundreds of reports, with people reporting rattling, vibrations, hearing earth noises or a rumble like a strong wind hitting their roof," he said.

"It's certainly significant but it's not uncommon so people should not worry that this is anything out of the ordinary."

State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Alan Briggs said while there had been no reports of any damage, anyone facing any problems should turn off all gas, electricity and water and call emergency services.

Eltham resident Caroline Hamilton felt the jolt at her home in Melbourne's northeast.

"I was at home in my living room, sitting on the couch, when I became aware of my roof shaking like there was a gigantic person up there running around," she said.

"At first I thought the roof was falling in but the floor was shaking too and I could feel the vibration coming up from under the couch.

"I wouldn't say it was terrifying but it was quite unsettling."

Associate Professor Malcolm Wallace from Melbourne University's school of earth sciences said the quake was probably an aftershock from the March 6 event.

He said it was normal for smaller tremors to be felt after an earthquake as stress on fault lines was dispersed from the epicentre.

"If it was from the same area it probably is related to that fairly large one a while ago," Dr Wallace said.

He said Victorians could expect more aftershocks but it was unlikely the tremor was a sign of a bigger earthquake to come.

"I don't think it's the prelude to a big earthquake.

"We probably have the same probability now of having a big earthquake as there always has been."

Dr Wallace said large earthquakes had not occurred in Victoria for thousands of years.

And while there was a possibility Victoria would again be hit by a big earthquake it was impossible to predict.

There is something seriously wrong with me!

I'll set the scene. I'm in the kitchen cooking. My wife is in the bedroom. She comes rushing in "Did you feel that. I think it was a tremor".

I 'of course' felt nothing, zero, zilch, nada.

It makes me wonder what magnitude a quake has to be before I notice anything

TyphoonTip said:

I was in the car driving somewhere this time

I heard it on late news I was at home too and didn't feel a damn thing.

Strange for Oz to get 2 tremors within a month...

PanthaGirl said:

apparently we had something like 13 in the month of march alone, just the ones of about 3.0 or so we can't feel

I saw the news yesterday and they mentionned you guys gonna have a massive lack of water but nothing about earth tremors

Hope you guys will make it alright

I felt today's one. WEIRD FEELING 2009!

I was doing an essay when my computer screen started shaking a lot more than usual, then my chair, then my room.

It lasted all of 10 seconds probably but it was still a gross feeling. Way too rough, I cannot IMAGINE if a big one hit.

I went outside to see if my dog was okay, she was sound asleep.

MarySharon said:

I think to make international news it has to be bigger than 4.5

we've had a drought for over 12 years now

ZombieKitten said:

Wow that's uncanny!