A 4.6-magnitude earthquake has rattled Melbourne overnight, waking people up from their sleep.
The tremor hit 127km east of the city near Rawson at 1.32am, with a depth of 3km, according to Geoscience Australia.
The Bureau of Meteorology said there was no tsunami threat.
Magda Szubanski was among the first to react, tweeting: ‘Earthquake??? Again?? Melbourne peeps??’
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Melbourne overnight, waking people up from their sleep
The tremor hit 127km east of the city
Magda Szubanski was among the first to react to the earthquake, tweeting at 1:38am
Many from Melbourne’s east and south reported feeling their homes shaking.
‘My house and everything was shaking for a couple of seconds,’ one resident told ABC Radio on Friday morning.
Another from Noble Park, in the city’s southeast, said he experienced ‘rattling’.
‘I’ve never experienced anything like it,’ he said.
‘It absolutely shook my home out at Noble Park. It rattled and rolled the place and I just jumped out of bed.’
Jane, who lives in Warragul about 60km southwest of Rawson, said she was awake when the quake hit.
‘The room was shaking and the windows were rattling, it lasted about four seconds.’
Others complained about the late-night disturbance.
One Victorian tweeted: ‘Alright going to try go back to sleep but I’ll probably dream of earthquakes now, thanks Melbourne.’
‘Thanks Melbourne, I didn’t wanna sleep anyways…,’ another said.
A third joked: ‘Another Melbourne earthquake or the collective anxiety tremors of Melbourne Swifties nervously hoping they get tickets today?’
There have been no reports of damage so far.
The earthquake is the latest in a series of quakes to rock Victoria in recent weeks.
Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Jonathan Bathgate said the quake was likely an aftershock from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake back in September, 2021.
‘This event that occurred early this morning is part of that sequence that started in September in 2021 with that magnitude-5.9 and we’ve recorded at least 47 earthquakes now between magnitude-two and this 4.6,’ Mr Bathgate told the ABC.
People took to Twitter in the moments after the quake struck
Mornington Peninsula was rocked by a 2.4-magnitude earthquake on June 3.
The earthquake struck just after midday at a depth of 8km.
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake woke up Melburnians on May 27, with people feeling the quake as far north as Albury on the Victoria-NSW border and as far south as Hobart.
It was thought to be the largest earthquake to impact the Melbourne metropolitan area in over 120 years, with cameras inside a radio station capturing the moment live on air.
A 2.3-magnitude quake hit Melbourne on May 16, hitting at 11.15am near Ferntree Gully, with a depth of about 4km.
More than 100 residents reported feeling the quake to Geoscience Australia.
In September 2021, Victoria was rocked by a record-breaking 5.9 magnitude earthquake.
In September 2021, Victoria was rocked by a record-breaking 5.9 magnitude earthquake
That earthquake, felt as far away as Sydney and Tasmania, shook buildings and knocked down walls as residents said it sounded like a ‘jet engine’
The shallow quake hit near the small town of Mansfield, 110 miles north-east of Melbourne, and was one of the largest to hit Australia in decades. It was six miles deep, according to Geoscience Australia.
That earthquake, felt as far away as Sydney and Tasmania, shook buildings and knocked down walls as residents said it sounded like a ‘jet engine’.
It was followed by two 4.0 and 3.1 magnitude aftershocks 18 and 39 minutes later – both within 10km of the original tremors.
In a popular shopping area around Melbourne’s Chapel Street, masonry debris tumbled from buildings and littered the roads.
Bricks and rubble surrounded Bettys Burgers fast food restaurant and large sheets of metal hung off the restaurant awning.
Chapel Street General Manager Chrissie Maus said about 60 traders in the popular shopping district had been affected by the earthquake – largely through loss of power or building damage.
The burger chain said in a statement that there was no-one inside the building at the time and all staff were safe.
