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- The quake on Wednesday collapsed the walls of buildings in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city and the capital of Victoria. It forced residents to flee apartments, shattered windows, left cracks in roads and led to power outages.
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May 29, 2023 · CNN —. Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century – swaying buildings but ultimately causing very ...
May 29, 2023 · The magnitude 3.8 earthquake that shook Melbourne on Sunday night was the largest tremor to occur within the city in more than 120 years, a seismologist says. Geoscience Australia reported the quake hit at 11.41pm near Sunbury on Melbourne’s north-west fringe, at an estimated depth of two kilometres.
May 28, 2023 · May 29, 2023 – 3.01am. Damage reports have come in after Melbourne was hit with a powerful 3.8-magnitude earthquake shortly before midnight on Sunday. High-rise buildings shook during the...
Sep 22, 2021 · You are seeing damage in Melbourne 150 kilometres away from the earthquake. If we were to get one of this magnitude beneath an urban centre, the damage would be catastrophic," he told ABC News.
May 30, 2023 · Potentially damaging earthquakes of magnitude-6.0 or above happen about every 10 years. Despite the upgrading of the Sunbury earthquake, it still lags significantly behind the 2021 quake centred in the small Victorian town of Rawson.
May 29, 2023 · 8:29am May 29, 2023. People in Melbourne are being warned this morning of the risk of aftershocks after the city was struck by its strongest earthquake in 120 years overnight. The 3.8-magnitude quake struck 3km deep in the north-western suburb of Sunbury about 11.40pm yesterday, Geoscience Australia recorded.
Sep 22, 2021 · 22 September 2021. EPA. Melbourne's popular Chapel St shopping precinct was among areas damaged. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of...
