Did the earth move for you too? ... Melbourne earthquake ~ 6 magnitude
- Thread starter Squire
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I found this surprising
www.abc.net.au
This pavlova shows how we get earthquakes in Australia
Australia is only rocked by damaging earthquakes like today's about twice a year. Here's how.
www.abc.net.au
Adelaide gets the odd tremor now and then. Before we arrived in SA in mid 1957 the south of Adelaide had a pretty big tremor—a house showed a huge crack from that tremor until quite recently. Another, smaller tremor happened while we were here—sounded like a train or huge truck moving up the street.
But Adelaide is in a horst und graben system of not great age as geology goes, Melbourne isn’t.
But Adelaide is in a horst und graben system of not great age as geology goes, Melbourne isn’t.
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Yes I was in bed, sleeping in, hubby was outside and I felt the bed shake so much it woke me up!
I realised it was a tremor. So I waited it out.
Daughter went to tell dad and he said he thought it’s was a big rumbling truck going past or tree falling down. We’ve had lots trees come down recently so we always blame the trees!
The tv is on a swivel stand and had moved a bit. A picture frame fell on the floor, and a light fell out of the ceiling. Hopefully I don’t discover any damage. House is on a concrete slab and doesn’t give much. Last big one we had years ago put a hairline split lengthwise ceiling in house and split concrete out back where Hills clothes line is.