What number did the Melbourne earthquake reach on the Richter scale?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25417668-2862,00.html Spate of earth tremors in Victoria’s east set to continue May 02, 2009 12:15pm A spate of earth tremors in Gippsland since a quake shook the area in March may be the earth righting itself, a seismologist says. A magnitude 2.3 earthquake was felt in and around the south Gippsland town of Korumburra about 4.30pm yesterday. It followed a series of minor tremors measuring between 1.8 and 2.3 over the past two weeks, while a 4.6 magnitude quake with its epicentre also in Korumburra was felt as far away as Bacchus March, 50km west of Melbourne, on March 18. Another 4.6 tremor occurred in the same area just a week earlier on March 6. Geoscience Australia seismologist David Jepson said the organisation was surveying a number of temporary seisometers in the area to investigate what was causing the quakes. He said one possibility w
Melbourne escapes unscathed after earthquake Posted Sat Mar 7, 2009 1:11am AEDT Updated Sat Mar 7, 2009 7:26am AEDT The tremor measured magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale. (ABC TV: Kate Thwaites) Geoscience Australia, which monitors earthquake activity, said the tremor measured magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale, with the epicentre at Korumburra, about 90 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The quake happened just before 9:00pm AEDT, and while there were no reports of injury, 000, media outlets and the Bureau of Meteorology were flooded with calls from people wanting to know what had happened. John Schneider, from Geoscience Australia, says the the region has not seen an earthquake of that magnitude in over a decade. “The last earthquake of any significant size in that area was the magnitude 5 earthquake at Thomson Reservoir in 1996,” he said. Terry Ryan from the Bureau of Meteorology says the quake was felt far from its epicentre. “Mainly out to the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and pl
