Thousands of residents near Melbourne wake up to earthquake – with no injuries or damage reported
- Melbourne hit by a 2.4 magnitude earthquake
- Second quake to hit the state in just five days
- Tremor hit city near Pakenham, 53km from CBD
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Victoria has woken to a 2.4 magnitude earthquake, its second quake in five days.
The tremor hit Melbourne near Pakenham, 53km southeast of the CBD, at a depth of 3km, just after 1am on Wednesday morning.
More than 80 residents have reported feeling the effects of the tremor, however no injuries or damages have been sustained.
Up to 12,000 Victorians reported feeling the 4.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the state during the early hours of Friday morning.
Last week’s larger tremor hit 127km east of the city near Rawson at 1.32am, with a depth of 3km, according to Geoscience Australia.
Residents took to Twitter early on Wednesday to confirm their suspicions.
‘What is up with Melbourne earthquakes? My whole house was shaking,’ one said.
‘I definitely felt something,’ a second wrote.
A third shared: ‘Far out… another one? Take care Melbourne friends.’
The earthquake is the latest in a series of quakes to rock Victoria in recent weeks.
Mornington Peninsula was rocked by a 2.4-magnitude earthquake on June 3.
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The earthquake struck just after midday at a depth of 8km.
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake woke up Melburnians on May 27, with people feeling the quake as far north as the Victoria-NSW border and as far south as Hobart.
Just 11 days earlier, a 2.3-magnitude quake hit Melbourne on May 16, hitting at 11.15am near Ferntree Gully, with a depth of about 4km.
More than 100 residents reported feeling this quake to Geoscience Australia.
In September 2021, Victoria was rocked by a record-breaking 5.9 magnitude earthquake. It was one of the largest to hit Australia in decades.
The shallow quake hit near the small town of Mansfield, 110 miles north-east of Melbourne at a depth of about 9.6km.
That earthquake, felt as far away as Sydney and Tasmania, shook buildings and knocked down walls as residents said it sounded like a ‘jet engine’.
It was followed by two 4.0 and 3.1 magnitude aftershocks 18 and 39 minutes later – both within 10km of the original tremors.
In a popular shopping area around Melbourne’s Chapel Street, masonry debris tumbled from buildings and littered the roads.
Bricks and rubble surrounded Bettys Burgers fast food restaurant and large sheets of metal hung off the restaurant awning.
Chapel Street General Manager Chrissie Maus said about 60 traders in the popular shopping district had been affected by the earthquake – largely through loss of power or building damage.
The burger chain said in a statement that there was no-one inside the building at the time and all staff were safe.
