Sydney / Melbourne: Great Earthquake 6.0 Struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the largest earthquakes in the country in the record, caused damage to buildings in the second largest city in neighboring countries.
Episentren earthquake is near the rural city of Mansfield in the state of Victoria, about 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Melbourne, and is in a depth of 10 km (six miles).
Aftershock is rated 4.0.
Pictures and recording videos circulating on social media showing debris from blocking one of Melbourne’s main roads, while people in the northern part of the city said on social media they had lost strength and others said they were evacuated from buildings.
The earthquake felt as far as the city of Adelaide, 800 km (500 miles) in the west in the South Australian state, and Sydney, 900 km (600 miles) to the north in the state of New South Wales, although there were no reports of damage outside Melbourne and There are no reports of injury.
Emergency officials and rescuers examined a damaged building at Chapel Chapel Street which was popular in Melbourne on September 22, 2021, after the earthquake.
(AFP) More than half of the 25 million Australian populations live in the southeast of the country from Adelaide to Sydney to Sydney.
“We do not have a report about serious injury, or worse, and it is very good news and we hope that good news will continue,” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Washington.
“It can be a very disturbing event, this earthquake.
They are very rare events in Australia and as a result, I am sure people will be quite depressed and disturbed.” The earthquake is relatively unusually in the east of Australia’s population because of its position in the midst of Indo-Australia’s tectonic plates, according to Australian geoscience.
The earthquake on Wednesday was measured higher than the deadly tremor of the country, 5.6 in Newcastle in 1989, which resulted in 13 deaths.
Mansfield Mayor, Mark Holcombe, said he was in his home office on his farm when the earthquake struck and ran out for salvation.
“I have been in an earthquake abroad before and seems to go longer than I experienced before,” Holcombe told ABC.
“Another thing that surprised me was how noisy was.
It was truly a roar like a big truck passed.” He knew there was no serious damage near the epicenter of the earthquake, although some residents reported problems with telecommunications.
There is no tsunami threat issued for land Australia, island or region, the country’s meteorological bureau said in a statement.
The earthquake presents a potential disorder for the expected anti-locking protest in Melbourne on Wednesday, which will be the third day of the riots that have reached the level of violence and police response.