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springvale. shook me awake. lasted for maybe 15 seconds? mild compared with the 6.0 one
@baconmash when was the 6.0, and what epicentre?
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/earthquake-magnitude-56-strikes-near-melbourne-australia-gfz-2021-09-21/
September 2021 Mansfield
@baconmash Ah yes that was a corker, I had given birth the day before and was on the 2nd of 3rd floor at The Women's, not a great feeling being in a multi storey building and extremely defenseless!
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-30/magnitude-4-6-earthquake-strikes-rawson-victoria/102544874
turns out to have been an aftershock of that one
Oh! That's a long wait.
Interesting - right on the Cheltenham/Mentone border and didn't feel a thing.
maybe your house is sturdier
Nope it went brrr all right during the last one!