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Geoscience Australia reported the quake just after 2am with an epicentre near the South Gippsland town of Korumburra.
The biggest earthquake to hit the state in three years abruptly has woken sleepers in regional Victoria and rattled Melburnians in the early hours of Saturday.
The magnitude 4.8 tremor was recorded by Geoscience Australia just after 2am with an epicentre six kilometres north-east of the South Gippsland town of Korumburra, about 103 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Seismology Research Centre chief scientist Adam Pascale has warned the seismic activity is far from over. He has recorded dozens of aftershocks, the largest hitting the scale at a magnitude of 3.2 at 2.56am.
“I can see popping off every couple of minutes and they’ll probably go on for weeks,” he said. “There’s potential for another of similar, or potentially larger, magnitude in the first few days or weeks afterwards. ”The federal government agency reported the tremor had a depth of 10 kilometres. Victorians across the state were shaken awake as far as Newport in the west and Whittlesea in the north-east.
A community information notice was published on VicEmergency and reported the earthquake occurred at 2.01am. Seismic activity has spiked in Victoria since a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in September 2021 damaged buildings in Melbourne and was
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