Earthquake strikes Melbourne sparking confusion: ‘Loud, explosion-like sound’
Melbourne was shaken by a small earthquake on Tuesday morning – with authorities picking up a 2.3 magnitude quake in the city’s eastern suburbs.
Several residents questioned whether they were imagining the ground beneath them rumbling.
‘Anyone else in Melbourne feel the earthquake a short time ago?’ one resident asked on Twitter.
‘WAS THAT AN EARTHQUAKE?’ asked another.
‘It was so quick it could’ve been thunder but I swear the roof shook’.
Earthquake monitoring organisation, the Seismology Research Centre, said the quake was detected near Ferntree Gully, not far from the Dandenong Ranges National Park.
A resident in Montrose, east of the city, reported feeling ‘rumbling, rattling and a loud explosion-like sound.’
A Belgrave local said ‘it was so small I thought it was just a truck being unloaded.’
The Bureau of Meteorology said there is no tsunami threat to Australia.