“You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake”

Jeanette Rankin.

Mt Conner... evidence of ancient ground shaking events

Victoria experienced and  earthquake near Moe of a 5.5 mag on the richter scale and I hurt my arm as the new moon went gracefully into Gemini.  Cute since Gemini is my sun sign and I must be careful of my arm especially.  I hurt it looking at the ocean for any seismic action east of me.


Mr Adam Pascale is Head of the ES&S Seismology Research Centre in Victoria

“This was a fairly significant earthquake event. The epicenter was 10 kilometres west of Churchill in Victoria, about 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. At this stage we’ve measured it as a magnitude of 5.5, which is about the same size as the significant Newcastle earthquake of 1989, which was magnitude 5.6. The difference is that this event didn’t occur in a highly populated area.

Tonight’s earthquake was felt strongly in the surrounding towns of Moe, Traralgon, Trafalgar, Churchill and Warrigal. It was also felt all throughout Melbourne and as far as Bendigo. There are also unconfirmed reports that it was possibly felt as far as Sydney.

At least one smaller aftershock has been recorded and we’ll be expecting aftershocks for some days and possibly weeks to come. We can’t rule out an equivalent or larger event in the sequence. There is no way to predict the magnitude of earthquakes to come.”

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Image by Mezza -Mt Conner NT.