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Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:03 pmby JAS
Listening to MMM covering the Collingwood v Essendon game they said there's been an earthquake in South Melbourne...apparently it was 4.6 and felt over in Mildura (sp?).
Hope all our Melbourne based forumites are ok
Regards
JAS
Re: Earthqake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:07 pmby A Mum
You spelt Mildura right JAS 
Boy, the ABC don't muck around...
The earthquake happened 15 minutes ago and they've already got it up
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 509904.htm
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:10 pmby JAS
haha...unlike the word 'Earthqake'
Yeh the MMM guys mentioned it as soon as they felt it. I was waiting on trial game scores by email form someone in south Melbourne. They're fine but apparently the house got a fair shaking.
Regards
JAS
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:33 pmby spell_check
That's a fair distance from Melbourne to Mildura - 475ks.
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:55 pmby the big bang
spell_check wrote:That's a fair distance from Melbourne to Mildura - 475ks.
exactly what i was gunna say!
mildura born and bred!
adelaide is closer to mildy than melbourne! how did they feel it??
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:09 pmby JAS
the_big_bang wrote:spell_check wrote:That's a fair distance from Melbourne to Mildura - 475ks.
exactly what i was gunna say!
mildura born and bred!
adelaide is closer to mildy than melbourne! how did they feel it??
I think the MMM guys said that someone had phoned in and said that
I just posted what they'd said at the time.
Regards
JAS
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:12 pmby A Mum
I'm looking on ABC website, and Adelaide Now website, so I can get some kind of map,
They all list different towns and I can't work it out !!
One said Sale to Melbourne,
Other said Gippsland...
I'm with you JAS
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:16 pmby JAS
Is there more than one Mildura perhaps???
It was definitely Mildura cos as soon as they said it I thought 'isn't that where BDP used to live?'.
It was only minutes after it happened so maybe they got the place wrong or someone was messing with them.
Even though it doesn't seem to have caused much damage I feel for the bushfire victims...they don't need a fright like that on top of what they've been through.
Regards
JAS
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:32 pmby smithy
Check this out JAS.
Earthquake Link
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:35 pmby JAS
Thanks smithy...like I said I just repeated what they said at the time. I'm guessing that as I can't see the name Mildura on there then it's nowhere near .
Regards
JAS
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:46 pmby spell_check
Possibly another place I'd presume, because according to the ruler tool on Google Earth, Mildura is 563ks from the epicentre.
The Docklands Stadium is 91ks away.
Re: Earthquake
Posted:
Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:48 pmby Leaping Lindner
We were having dinner outside on Fitzroy Street in St Kilda and didn't feel or hear a thing.
Re: Earthquake
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Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:05 amby rogernumber10
Shook the house a bit for us in Melbourne east. Epicentre, according to radio this morning, was supposed to in melbourne's outer south eastern suburbs.
Very very mild though got the kids talking.
Re: Earthquake
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Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:42 amby Psyber
My house in the Dandenong Ranges shook, and for a moment I thought one of the huge Mountain Ash outside had fallen on it.