“At first, I thought the car was having a few issues and then realised all of a sudden that everything was moving,” he said. So far, most of the damage has been reported in Melbourne, in the suburbs of Prahran, Brunswick, West Melbourne, and Albert Park.īut Craig Luelf from the All Seasons Mansfield resort said he felt the ground moving and that it was “quite scary.” Victoria’s State Emergency Service said they were receiving calls for assistance from across the state and were yet to make an assessment of any damage. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Meteorology said there was no tsunami threat from the quake. “I’ve lived here 29 years and have never felt anything like it.” We seem to have got over it pretty well. Everyone’s a bit shaken up here, but there doesn’t seem to be any damage. “There’s no cracks or anything in the walls. The roof shook, boots fell off the shelf, and I just ran outside,” she said. Lynne Myers of High County Apparel in Mansfield said “it just scared the hell out of us.” A magnitude 4.0 aftershock was reported about 15 minutes later in the same location. Geoscience Australia reported the quake’s epicentre at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) near Mansfield, about 200 kilometres (131 miles) northeast of Melbourne. We need to get engineers in to assess it and then the works will need to be completed,” he said.įor more info and updates, or if you felt this earthquake, go to No one was inside Betty’s Burgers, but a tenant was upstairs in the same building when the earthquake hit, restaurant managing director Troy McDonagh told AAP. One video showed the brick facade and part of the roof of a building that housed Betty’s Burgers that had crumbled onto Chapel Street in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor, while another showed a live news broadcast from a studio being disrupted by the tremors. Houses and apartments shook, with videos and photos emerging on social media showing buildings damaged in the state’s capital, Melbourne. Australians have taken to social media to report they felt a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, revised down from the 6.0 initially reported, which struck in regional Victoria at around 9.15 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning.

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