A WHOLE LOT OF SHAKING GOING ON
VICTORIANS should be on alert for more earthquake jolts in coming weeks and months after the biggest quake in the state’s recorded history on Wednesday.
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to the service, mostly for help with building damage.
No one had been reported as injured.
Seismology Research Centre senior seismologist Wayne Peck confirmed that the quake was the biggest recorded in Victoria since such events were measured.
Australia’s most deadly quake, on December 28,
1989, in Newcastle had a magnitude of 5.4. Because its epicentre was close to urban areas, the disaster killed 13 people, injured more than 160 and left a $4bn damage bill.
The previous strongest quake recorded in Victoria was at Mt Hotham in May 1966 and had a magnitude of 5.7.
After Wednesday’s quake, power was lost to more than 35,000 Victorian homes in metropolitan Melbourne and the northeast of the state. Most were back online by mid-afternoon.