Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll take a stab at magnitude 3.5
Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.
Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll take a stab at magnitude 3.5
Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.
Geoff wrote in news:Xns9F18E8C52198BGeoff@88.198.244.100:
Just heard that the epicentre was Korumburra, and magnitude 4.4
Not a bad guess then with the 3.5
Each numeric increase by 1 is ten times the shaking amplitude, so the original guess was actually off by nearly a factor of ten :-)
Peter
Yeah, I know that but still not a bad result considering he used a seismo-wobbly-legometer to get to that value!
;)
We had one Tues day too. 6.5 at Taupo - felt it in Wellington bigger than anything I've ever felt before, and that was 200km away !
geoff (a different one).
"geoff" wrote in news:ue-dnTSmXpV2j4nTnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Maybe something to do with it being on the same tectonic plate? I don't know what it feels like to esperience a 6.5. A workmate was in Tokyo during the big one there this year and he said it was scary at mag 5.x We have friends in Melbourne from Chistchurch. They won't move back under any circumstances.
So now they'll be moving on from Melbourne ?!!
geoff
We get a 5.5 here every few years and they are an interesting thing to plan for. Picture frames don't do too well. Had one while driving one time and I thought a wheel was loose.
-- Brad Leyden 6° 43.5816' S 146° 59.3097' E WGS84
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