I’d got back from Canberra last night about 8-30pm. It had been a long day and I was wearily sitting in my office at home in the north of Melbourne when, at around 9-00pm, I heard what sounded like a motor outside the window – weird enough for me to stop and think ‘What is that?’. Then the window frame itself started shuddering for 10 seconds or so. It was an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 – the second I can recall experiencing in Melbourne. (121)
I guess that puts paid to the Pangea commentary about Australia not having earthquakes and being stable enough to store the world’s used uranium rods?
[...] earthquake (here) was the third I have experienced in Melbourne and of scale 5.3 – the last, in 2009, being much milder. Last night I noticed a very noisy outside disturbance which I assumed was a gust of wind [...]