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The State Emergency Service said it was dispatching a crew to inspect a building that is reported to have suffered cracks in suburban Ascot Vale.
The SES also received reports of a cracked road around Mickleham.
The earthquake follows a magnitude 2.5 seismic event near Ferntree Gully,30 kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD,on May 16.
The Seismology Research Centre in Melbourne said it was possible there could be minor damage,due to the quake being so shallow.
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“It woke me up,got me out of bed,” said seismologist and chief scientistAdam Pascale in a late-night live Tweet.
On September 22,2021, a magnitude-5.9 earthquake occurred in a largely unpopulated area in north-east Victoria,between Mansfield and Rawson.
At a depth of 10 kilometres,that quake lasted 30 to 40 seconds,according to Geoscience Australia. It was felt not just in Melbourne but across south-eastern Australia. There were six aftershocks throughout the day,of magnitudes 3.5,4.1,2.5,3.1,2.4 and 2.9.