Earthquake in Melbourne reported tonight

by ozziepost 6 Replies latest social current

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  ozziepost

  Showing on ABC News:

  

  Sunday October 22, 11:48 PM

  Small earthquake hits south-east Melbourne

  Seismologists have confirmed a small earthquake has rocked Melbourne's south-east.

  The magnitude two earthquake was initially thought to be magnitude 4.

  The suspected tremor follows a magnitude four earthquake on Saturday night 30 kilometres east of Cowra, in the central west of New South Wales.

  Phil Cummins from Geoscience Australia says its purely coincidence there have been two earth tremors in two days,

  "I don't yet regard this as too far outside the norm," he said.

  "I mean earthquakes happen continuously in Australia, we get plenty of magnitude threes and twos that are rarely felt, it is true we have had two magnitude fours but I really don't think it is anything unusual."
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  katiekitten

  Hurricanes, earthquakes...

  Ozzie, are you one of the four horsemen by any chance?
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  ozziepost

  Hmmm....what next, eh?
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  katiekitten

  Oh I dunno. Food shortages in one place a after another probably. Men lying down with men, men marrying women being given in marriage... where will it end??
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  ozziepost

  Food shortages in one place a after another probably

  That's an interesting one - I've heard it said that food shortages are a result of an over-consuming West. Still, the WTS wouldn't like that, would they?
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  katiekitten

  Yes ive heard that too because it takes something ridiculous like 42kg of grain to make 1kg of meat.

  Maybe one of the four horsemen should have been a big fat bloater eating a MacDonalds.
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  Stephanus

  Magnitude 4??? That's what gets Melbournians excited these days, is it? The scrap metal yard down the road from us makes bigger thumps than that!