Hundreds of people have reported feeling an earthquake about 135km south-east of Melbourne after the region was struck by a significant tremor earlier this month.
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Geoscience Australia recorded a quake at a depth of 5km just after 2pm on Saturday, with the epicentre at Kardella South, near the Gippsland town of Korumburra.
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At least 200 reports were made to the federal organisation.
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It comes after a magnitude 4.8 tremor struck near Korumburra on October 3, with locals reporting shaking windows and creaking homes.
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Earthquake geologist Dr Dee Ninis, from Monash University's School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, said aftershocks can be recorded for a while after a quake.
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'Aftershocks are felt hours, days, even weeks after an initial earthquake,' she told ABC News.
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'Because it occurred in the same area as the earthquake earlier this month and was of a lower magnitude than the initial earthquake, it is an aftershock.
'Often there's hundreds of aftershocks after an earthquake and the majority are usually too small to be felt.
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Hundreds of people have reported feeling an earthquake about 135km south-east of Melbourne after the region was struck by a significant tremor earlier this month
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The Gippsland Basin is a region of heightened seismic activity relative to some other regions.
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Back in 2009, there was a magnitude 4.7 which was followed by a similar magnitude earthquake about two weeks later.
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During the quake earlier in October, Geoscience Australia's Hadi Ghasemi said it was one of the strongest tremors the region had experienced in the past two decades.
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'The shaking was widely felt, close to the epicentre.
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It was a strong shake but I don't expect any major damage,' he said.
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Mr Ghasemi added that a magnitude 3.1 aftershock was recorded nearby shortly afterwards.
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'The windows shook and the whole house creaked.
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I couldn't sleep after that one.
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Scary, scary,' Caulfield South resident Jane Barnes told The Age.
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Another resident, Michelle Wade, said she woke up to her apartment in Armadale shaking.
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'I could hear things falling down hitting the apartment floor above me,' she said.
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Geoscience Australia recorded a quake at a depth of 5km just after 2pm on Saturday, with the epicentre at Kardella South, near the Gippsland town of Korumburra (stock image)
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It's not something you expect when you're sleeping.
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It definitely took me a while to settle my nerves.
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Geoscience Australia received more than 16,000 reports from people who felt the quake, which had a depth of 10km, within an hour.
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It followed a 3.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Victoria's High Country just weeks earlier.
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The state has experienced a series of quakes since a magnitude 5.9 tremor struck in September 2021, damaging buildings in Melbourne and being felt across south-eastern Australia.
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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake along the Great Ocean Road shook parts of Melbourne in October 2023, with the October 3 tremor marking Victoria's largest quake since then.
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Mr Ghasemi also urged people to report how they felt during the quake once it was safe to do so, allowing Geoscience Australia to accurately map its impact.
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The latest felt reports and earthquake updates are available on the Geoscience Australia website.
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