9/25/2023 0 Comments Quake map did you feel itOur monitoring service identified a second report from Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency which listed the quake at magnitude 5.9 as well. Magnitude and other quake parameters can still change in the coming hours as the agency continues to process seismic data. The earthquake hit in the morning on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021, at 9:15 am local time at a very shallow depth of 1.2 miles. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported a magnitude 5.9 quake in Australia near Pakenham, Cardinia, Victoria, 4 hours ago. We're happy that the damage was very limited and no serious casualties were reported. I was standing so had to grab on to the kitchen counter." Other feedback sent to us included "pictures fell of the walls" and " There seemed to be a thump of some sort then very significant rattling of crockery".Ī scary morning indeed, but at 5.9 it could have been much worse. Another user described "Vibration as if a tank was happily hopping by just outside the house. In the township of Seymour, Victoria, about 116 km away from the epicenter, one user said that "internal doors swung open, small items fell on shelves". There were also lesser aftershocks that were also felt by some residents, which also didn't contribute to significantly to existing damage. We believe that strong building codes and sound construction practices in Australia helped protect against more severe damage. News bulletins showed some fallen debris from buildings in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, which miraculously did not fall on people during this early hour. Many residents reported evacuating their homes and some suffered from power cuts. Thousands of people reported shaking, windows rattling, the feeling of heavy trucks passing by, swaying water and much more, even before official quake agencies released a quake report. Our monitoring service at VolcanoDiscovery was bombarded with over 10,000 reports of the quake (our highest number of reports from a single quake). It was nothing short of a miracle that there was very little damage and no serious casualties reported at the time of writing from this heavy and shallow quake, which was felt as far as 600 km away from its epicenter, all the way to the Central Coast of New South Wales. The last time a quake hit the area was 9 years ago near Thorpdale (Baw Baw) with a magnitude of 5.2 and another 21 years ago in South Gippsland with a magnitude of 5.0. A large earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit Mansfield, in the state of Victoria, Southeast Australia on the morning of September 22, 9:15 am.
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