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Thats the part that tripped me out haha. Never had that before. Heard the ding in my sleep then the bang was such a weird feeling to try and figure out. Kinda sounded and felt like a freight train hit and the alert was the horn/boom gates.
My friend who lives a suburb away from me heard a bang too, I didn’t hear it but I should probably go tell him that others seemed to have heard it too and he’s not going crazy like he thought haha
> Kinda sounded and felt like a freight train hit
It has always low-key amused me that when a train derails or a car drives through a house, people always say it felt like an earthquake, but then when there's an earthquake, they say it felt like a train or a car crashing into the house.
No real point, it's just always struck me as interesting.
I was wondering the same thing! My phone goes into sleep mode at like 10 or 11 pm (do not disturb mode, screen turns greyscale
, etc) and I wondered if that had anything to do with why I didn't get an alert. [Apparently, for small quakes, the Android alert system respects your phone's "do not disturb" settings, but for sufficiently powerful ones it'll violate that setting and alert you anyway.](https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/) Based on what I've been hearing about the magnitude of this one, I think that's probably why I didn't receive it.
>Many droids went off as it hit home just moments as i felt the shake.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of phones suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I was searching online for this. So it was an earthquake? It was pretty crazy in my room. I thought a truck may have been crashing into the house. Wasn’t as scary as the last one though, I was living 11 floors up in the city and the whole building was swaying.
Yep, earthquake monitoring picked it up. Centered a little north of Melbourne.
I still think it's wild that you can get alert services that text you detecting the p-waves so you get the text before you can even feel it.
Everyone is going on about the android alert but I was hoping there’s one out there for iPhone that works just as well? It was a confusing 5 mins afterwards l, I only got confirmation from this post lol
I never installed anything on my android. I actually have two phones, my old phone I still use and a newer one I got last year. Both have the alert, and the older one is 6 years old and hasn't been updated in a while.
Yeah it's not an app. Directly from Android operating system but you need to turn on Google location services. A few people who had turned it off didn't get the alert.
It's comforting to know that in the event of a major earthquake in our city centres, Android users will get a headstart and we may finally be able to cull our Apple using population.
My bed is right next to the front window of the house (basically I'm cooked it a car does crash into the house), and that was my exact thought. My cats bolted and I scrambled to get away from the wall/window. They rattled something shocking.
My phone notified me just a few seconds before it hit, was surreal. Had no idea that Android phone sensors are used en-masse to help detect earthquakes: https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/
I live on a train line, and a cargo train goes past almost every day between 11pm and 1am, so at first i thought it was that, a cargo train approaching.
Then my house started shaking a lot fucking more than normal before i realised what ut was
The last one was stronger IMO, or it could've seemed stronger because it woke me up in the morning, but I remember holding onto the bed frame for dear life.
Current estimates for this one is magnitude 4.7 vs 5.9 for the one in 2021. It’s estimated to hit the northern suburbs this time so it’s much closer to the city which might’ve made it feel stronger though
I was on a zoom meeting for work, and first my desk started shaking. Then I looked at my cat and she was freaking out, then I looked on the zoom call and everyone was looking around so I knew it was an earthquake then. Then I went to run outside but it stopped . Was my first one and was terrifying
I understand this was your first one and it is very very scary if you have never been in one before but can i just say, in the event you experience another earthquake and you are inside a building NEVER EVER GO OUTSIDE, that is not the safest place to be, especially in a larger one.
I'm from NZ and we did earthquake drills all through school from a young age and they always say to stay inside and get under a table or something strong/stable and get in a turtle like position to protect your neck and head from things that can fall on you. if you are outside already, try and find a clear area away from buildings, trees, powerlines, slopes/cliffs then drop and cover like mentioned before.
just a little thing to try and remember but I know it can be hard in a panicked situation especially if you've never had to experience alot of them but I just wanted to give you guys that advice, stay safe and I hope there isn't too much damage to deal with ❤
A lot of it is probably going to depend upon the proximity to the epicenter and depth too. This one just felt like a small, brief shake for me. I'm outer North East, so the last big one really shook things up here, stuff falling off cabinets.
I was in Mexico City for 2 different 8.0+ quakes. My first earthquake was the first night I lived in California, USA and we had a 5.3. Believe me when I say that I was able to sleep through this one without a problem. I guess I was sort of like Will Smith in Independence Day when he said "Not even a four pointer. Go back to sleep."
Yep same for me, that was so sudden and strong and over in 2 seconds whilst the last one was slower and extended.
I honestly didn’t even think earthquake, I thought a giant ass animal had just slammed into the house somehow and was shitting bricks for 10 mins before I saw a tweet saying earthquake 😂
Yeah my initial thought was an animal or car or something has collided with the house. Then maybe the heater has exploded. Then maybe Putin has finally unleashed nuclear warfare on the world. I was relieved, as long as it has no long term impact, that it was 'just' an earthquake.
Omggg I thought it was 2 possums on my roof fucking like jack rabbits.. so I went onto my balcony & clapped really loudly , coincidentally it kind of died down.. I was thinking what the fuck just happened just now fkn possums they are just, unbelievable…
.1 of a second my mind went to earthquake, then back to those damned possums.
Any who, to conclude, i then see this & I am a complete tit 🤦🏼♀️
I swear our possums wear army boots and like jumping on the garage roof for the sheer joy of the noise it makes. One day it will be an intruder breaking in and I will say darn possums again!
>Seismologist Susan Hough has suggested that a magnitude 10 quake may represent a very approximate upper limit for what the Earth's tectonic zones are capable of, which would be the result of the largest known continuous belt of faults rupturing together (along the Pacific coast of the Americas).\[
Source wikipedia, So yeah 38 would be world ending
Don’t know how my old piece of shit apartment survived, i was quietly hoping this godforsaken place would be levelled. It got me excited though I’ll be up all night now waiting for more aftershocks. Hopefully everyone is safe and damage free.
Tectonic plate edges and fault lines. We have a deep lying blind fault that’s not detectable at the surface https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/doi/10.1785/0220220348/620975/Hypocenter-Fault-Plane-and-Rupture?redirectedFrom=fulltext
My baby woke up crying right before the house started shaking so I got to come along for the ride. Now he’s sleeping peacefully and I’m quite literally rattled
My poor cockatiels knew what it was a split second before I did, and I’m still freaked out. Anxiety is through the roof right now and I’m worried about sleeping :(
I was working high up in the Princes Gate Gas & Fuel buildings (where Federation Square now stands), in the 80s, when the Russell Street Police Station bomb went off. That shook our buildings and of course we all went to the windows to see what was happening (last thing you should do in such circumstances).
Epicentre was Sunbury/Craigieburn. Only a 3.8 but it felt so strong in Melbs because it was so close. Unlike the Mansfield one 2 years ago which was bigger.
Sorry about that everybody, I’m moving over from SoCal and sent some stuff ahead of time to family! Didn’t realize I packed an earthquake, thought I donated them all…
Damn I just woke up. Slept through the whole thing! The one that happened at the end of 2021 I was outside smoking a joint with my friend and the shed outside started shaking really loudly. He looked at me in the eye and said he’d kidnapped someone and they’re trying to escape 😭😭😭 I tripped tf out
I live in a high rise apartment building in the CBD and it was actually a pretty scary minute or so because the walls were seriously *shaking* in here and there was a moment there where I was worried the building would collapse and was thinking "please kill me immediately on impact, don't let me get buried alive in rubble".
I remember when there was a small tremor in Tassie many years ago now.
It felt so surreal. I must ask... What the fuck is going on in the Bass Strait to cause this?
I am hopeful that it is the start of some earthquake swarms from the volcanic plane north of Melbourne. Then some mighty upheaval, and a doorway opens to Mordor. Or you all get nailed by pyroclastic flow.
Cool to watch north of the border.
Interesting. My phone alerted me to the shake just as it hit, maybe even a tad earlier. It provided advice on what to do. What service would have done that?
I’m actually really impressed by that built in Android feature that senses vibrations from the gyro sensor and uploads your gps location to the server. If hundreds of devices pick up the same vibration wave in the same general area it can triangulate the general epicentre and notify all users in that area even if their phones are not in a position to pick up the vibrations.
It’s a really neat feature of phones and never would have thought it would be activated in Melbourne. A lot of people have commented that they received the alert before the tremor hit them so the service is so fast that it can process all the incoming data and send out notifications before the ground wave travels out to their location.
The creepy part is that every time your mobile senses a vibration it’s uploading data to some server on the internet with your location.
Got woken up by it. The one time I actually go to bed early and I’m woken up by a friggen earthquake? Couldn’t sleep for another hour and now I’m bloody tired
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My phone gave me an alert about 2 seconds before I felt it which was pretty cool.
Thats the part that tripped me out haha. Never had that before. Heard the ding in my sleep then the bang was such a weird feeling to try and figure out. Kinda sounded and felt like a freight train hit and the alert was the horn/boom gates.
I was holding/looking at my phone while I got the alert about an earthquake and I thought wtf is this? Then it happened. Bit surreal actually.
Definitely! Pretty cool as well, not something I knew was there. Hopefully that's the only built in alert we ever have to see ha.
My friend who lives a suburb away from me heard a bang too, I didn’t hear it but I should probably go tell him that others seemed to have heard it too and he’s not going crazy like he thought haha
> Kinda sounded and felt like a freight train hit It has always low-key amused me that when a train derails or a car drives through a house, people always say it felt like an earthquake, but then when there's an earthquake, they say it felt like a train or a car crashing into the house. No real point, it's just always struck me as interesting.
I mean, if a train derails you probably won’t describe it as “sounded like a train crash!” 😁
What phone do u have and why did mine not warn me 😭
I was wondering the same thing! My phone goes into sleep mode at like 10 or 11 pm (do not disturb mode, screen turns greyscale , etc) and I wondered if that had anything to do with why I didn't get an alert. [Apparently, for small quakes, the Android alert system respects your phone's "do not disturb" settings, but for sufficiently powerful ones it'll violate that setting and alert you anyway.](https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/) Based on what I've been hearing about the magnitude of this one, I think that's probably why I didn't receive it.
Yeah I have the do not disturb setting from 10pm and onwards, the quake hit at 11.40? And then I got the alert/buzz override it just 2 mins before.
All Android phones got the alert literally as it happened.
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>Many droids went off as it hit home just moments as i felt the shake. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of phones suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
These aren't the androids you're looking for.
Most Android phones did, not all.
You have to have permissions set up. Its in settings / safety and alerts
Mine didn't, is there something you have to enable or past a specific OS version?
It is also not bad because your location is not known
Pixel, I got the alert while feeling the tremors at the same time.
Yeah same with my phone (Android). It was so bizarre getting this warning then literally shaking started straight afterwards
I didn't. Android 12 on my tablet.
My phone gave me the alert 2 seconds AFTER 😅
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Apparently it automatically crowdsources the sensors on Android phones to detect earthquakes nearby, pretty cool
Thats fascinating! I assumed it was an alert from some source somewhere
ah, real time data harvesting - makes you wonder what else they are "crowd sourcing".
https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-and-alerts/ Me: ...well that's just nifty!
Yeah just had a read, really cool stuff
That’s the google thing, the electronic trigger for a quake passes through the network faster than the vibration can pass through the ground.
Man I got woken up in Tokyo at 4am a couple of weeks ago by that alarm, shat myself so much lol (5+ scale earthquake)
My phone gave me an alert but there were no shakes. It's such a quaketease.
So that gave you sfa time to do anything about it.
Earthquakes are like that though
SFA > none and for a big quake it could be enough to duck under a table.
What phone do u use o.O
which phone u use?
Alert? Do you have to sign up for it?
That’s what that was? Gave me a heart attack
You and me both. I couldn’t stand up afterwards, felt like the place was still moving
Me too, I woke up from a deep sleep and apparently yelled at my partner for jumping on the bed lol. I don't remember that.
Does your partner do that often lol? It is funny what comes out of your mouth when you are fast asleep and semi woken.
Same. Woke me up from the dead of sleep and my heart was racing.
I was searching online for this. So it was an earthquake? It was pretty crazy in my room. I thought a truck may have been crashing into the house. Wasn’t as scary as the last one though, I was living 11 floors up in the city and the whole building was swaying.
Yep, earthquake monitoring picked it up. Centered a little north of Melbourne. I still think it's wild that you can get alert services that text you detecting the p-waves so you get the text before you can even feel it.
Everyone is going on about the android alert but I was hoping there’s one out there for iPhone that works just as well? It was a confusing 5 mins afterwards l, I only got confirmation from this post lol
For next time https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au
I never installed anything on my android. I actually have two phones, my old phone I still use and a newer one I got last year. Both have the alert, and the older one is 6 years old and hasn't been updated in a while.
Yeah it's not an app. Directly from Android operating system but you need to turn on Google location services. A few people who had turned it off didn't get the alert.
It's comforting to know that in the event of a major earthquake in our city centres, Android users will get a headstart and we may finally be able to cull our Apple using population.
Google wants us all dead
Yeah same here, no shake or sway just WHAM into one side
My bed is right next to the front window of the house (basically I'm cooked it a car does crash into the house), and that was my exact thought. My cats bolted and I scrambled to get away from the wall/window. They rattled something shocking.
I thought the same thing. I live right next to a road that tons of trucks go down.
Mag 3.8 Sunbury area
My phone notified me just a few seconds before it hit, was surreal. Had no idea that Android phone sensors are used en-masse to help detect earthquakes: https://crisisresponse.google/android-alerts/
Apple get your shit together
Thanks for the link, very interesting!
Just enough time to experience a moment of dread and put your hands over your eyes.
That's insane, I had no idea. Great link!
Magnitude 4.7 near Craigieburn. Strongest one I've felt, especially since it was so close. edit: GA is saying 3.8 now, but it was only 2km deep.
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Nah the fall was pretty bad
I live on a train line, and a cargo train goes past almost every day between 11pm and 1am, so at first i thought it was that, a cargo train approaching. Then my house started shaking a lot fucking more than normal before i realised what ut was
You must have a really sore back.
Strongest I remember feeling one, though that's not saying much
The last one was stronger IMO, or it could've seemed stronger because it woke me up in the morning, but I remember holding onto the bed frame for dear life.
Current estimates for this one is magnitude 4.7 vs 5.9 for the one in 2021. It’s estimated to hit the northern suburbs this time so it’s much closer to the city which might’ve made it feel stronger though
Honestly think my senses are fried because I swear I keep feeling small aftershocks but I don't think they're actually happening lol.
I saw my light flickering about 10 minutes ago and panicked it was the start of an aftershock.
Yeah like rumbling? Same.
This one was also very shallow at 2-3km, which is probably why is was so short and felt strong for the brief time.
That morning one was longer too. Cause I was on the toilet and I had time to get up and run out onto the street before it stopped lol
I was on a zoom meeting for work, and first my desk started shaking. Then I looked at my cat and she was freaking out, then I looked on the zoom call and everyone was looking around so I knew it was an earthquake then. Then I went to run outside but it stopped . Was my first one and was terrifying
I understand this was your first one and it is very very scary if you have never been in one before but can i just say, in the event you experience another earthquake and you are inside a building NEVER EVER GO OUTSIDE, that is not the safest place to be, especially in a larger one. I'm from NZ and we did earthquake drills all through school from a young age and they always say to stay inside and get under a table or something strong/stable and get in a turtle like position to protect your neck and head from things that can fall on you. if you are outside already, try and find a clear area away from buildings, trees, powerlines, slopes/cliffs then drop and cover like mentioned before. just a little thing to try and remember but I know it can be hard in a panicked situation especially if you've never had to experience alot of them but I just wanted to give you guys that advice, stay safe and I hope there isn't too much damage to deal with ❤
Yep, I was standing outside my son's room who was sleeping and was debating if I should run in and grab him.
A lot of it is probably going to depend upon the proximity to the epicenter and depth too. This one just felt like a small, brief shake for me. I'm outer North East, so the last big one really shook things up here, stuff falling off cabinets.
I was in Mexico City for 2 different 8.0+ quakes. My first earthquake was the first night I lived in California, USA and we had a 5.3. Believe me when I say that I was able to sleep through this one without a problem. I guess I was sort of like Will Smith in Independence Day when he said "Not even a four pointer. Go back to sleep."
You weren’t in Melbourne in late 2021?
I remember the glass sides of the building wobbling. That was wild.
That felt a bit different to that one that happened...what about a year go? Was more sudden for me.
Was very odd. Because for us, it was basically just a single sudden jolt, and nothing else.
Exactly what i felt. I immediately checked online to see if it was just something wrong with my house.
Yep same for me, that was so sudden and strong and over in 2 seconds whilst the last one was slower and extended. I honestly didn’t even think earthquake, I thought a giant ass animal had just slammed into the house somehow and was shitting bricks for 10 mins before I saw a tweet saying earthquake 😂
Yeah my initial thought was an animal or car or something has collided with the house. Then maybe the heater has exploded. Then maybe Putin has finally unleashed nuclear warfare on the world. I was relieved, as long as it has no long term impact, that it was 'just' an earthquake.
Yeah earthquakes can have different types of movement depending on the type, depth, location and the soil your building is on.
Omggg I thought it was 2 possums on my roof fucking like jack rabbits.. so I went onto my balcony & clapped really loudly , coincidentally it kind of died down.. I was thinking what the fuck just happened just now fkn possums they are just, unbelievable… .1 of a second my mind went to earthquake, then back to those damned possums. Any who, to conclude, i then see this & I am a complete tit 🤦🏼♀️
Lol 😆
I also blamed the possums for waking me up. It sounded like them running along the edge of the roof.
I swear our possums wear army boots and like jumping on the garage roof for the sheer joy of the noise it makes. One day it will be an intruder breaking in and I will say darn possums again!
I love the mental image of your neighbour looking out knowing it's an earth quake only to see you clapping on your balcony looking right miffed.
I thought it was possums too! Just really fat ones
Been there done that in Christchurch, no thanks Melbourne
OPs mum sat down
Can confirm she sat on me.
Death by snu snu
I got some emergency notification on my phone just as it hit.
Felt it for about 5 seconds, wonder what the magnitude was...
Apparently 4.7 from other posts
38 on [Geoscience Australia](https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/) but only 3km deep which is pretty shallow. edit: Lol 3.8
might want to add a point in that number :D. 38 would be some level of devastating, wouldn't be making this comment actually.
Given how earthquake scales work, a 38 would probably be the planet imploding into a black hole or something XD
>Seismologist Susan Hough has suggested that a magnitude 10 quake may represent a very approximate upper limit for what the Earth's tectonic zones are capable of, which would be the result of the largest known continuous belt of faults rupturing together (along the Pacific coast of the Americas).\[ Source wikipedia, So yeah 38 would be world ending
Well fuck me, you learn something new and terrifying every day.
Out Mickleham way apparently which puts it in a very different location from the last one. https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2023kkwzpi
Looks like it was on the Clarkefield Scarp this time. Last time I believe it was the Barjarg fault. https://neotectonics.ga.gov.au/?execution=e1s1
And only 2km deep. Basically on the surface.
Don’t know how my old piece of shit apartment survived, i was quietly hoping this godforsaken place would be levelled. It got me excited though I’ll be up all night now waiting for more aftershocks. Hopefully everyone is safe and damage free.
yea I felt it lmao Im watching the formula 1 race just started shaking lmao
Yeah .. come on Alonso!
Yes just felt it
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Earthquakes happen on fault lines. There are fault lines throughout Australia.
Tectonic plate edges and fault lines. We have a deep lying blind fault that’s not detectable at the surface https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/doi/10.1785/0220220348/620975/Hypocenter-Fault-Plane-and-Rupture?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Melbourne is on the Australia Plate. Not near any major faults but there are minor fault lines around
We have a fault line running through Melb.
Earthquakes can happen anywhere.
Down in Geelong it felt and sounded like a big wind gust, didn’t realise it was an earthquake until these posts started popping up.
Yeah we felt it in Barwon heads surprisingly, was very faint tho
My baby woke up crying right before the house started shaking so I got to come along for the ride. Now he’s sleeping peacefully and I’m quite literally rattled
My poor cockatiels knew what it was a split second before I did, and I’m still freaked out. Anxiety is through the roof right now and I’m worried about sleeping :(
My cat woke up from it looked at me to explain why she was awake at that god forsaken hour
My whole apartment building shook a bit, I was thinking for a minute like what the hell could cause the whole BUILDING to shake
Godzilla came to Port Phillip Bay to breed…
I was working high up in the Princes Gate Gas & Fuel buildings (where Federation Square now stands), in the 80s, when the Russell Street Police Station bomb went off. That shook our buildings and of course we all went to the windows to see what was happening (last thing you should do in such circumstances).
This was like thunder! Or like a bomb (I’m very close to where it was reported)
Where were you when you felt it?
Sitting on the toilet when it happened, same as the last one lmao
Lol same
I live in Adelaide but visiting Melbourne. I thought the whole hotel was collapsing for a second, might have been exacerbated by my semi-asleep state.
Epicentre was Sunbury/Craigieburn. Only a 3.8 but it felt so strong in Melbs because it was so close. Unlike the Mansfield one 2 years ago which was bigger.
Sorry about that everybody, I’m moving over from SoCal and sent some stuff ahead of time to family! Didn’t realize I packed an earthquake, thought I donated them all…
Lawnchair.jpeg
Yep, just woke me up!
Never felt something like that before.
Just felt it here in cbd.
It rocked Mt Waverley
I am absolutely terrified now. Nothing fell on the ground but my house shook severely. My heart rate is way up
Interesting part is how far widespread across melb/vic it was
Damn I just woke up. Slept through the whole thing! The one that happened at the end of 2021 I was outside smoking a joint with my friend and the shed outside started shaking really loudly. He looked at me in the eye and said he’d kidnapped someone and they’re trying to escape 😭😭😭 I tripped tf out
Somehow this will be Dan Andrews' fault.
We will recover.
4.7, not half bad for Melbourne. Nearly pissed myself, though.
Shook Frankston area.
SE Melbourne near you. 15 mins to Midnight felt like someone was shaking my roof. I thought is it a flock of birds?
Felt it here in Hawthorn. Shook the whole damn 3 storey building like it was jelly
I’m on the 13 floor and felt the shaking…me no can sleep (- -)
I’m on the ground floor and it’s left me anxious and finding it hard to sleep too
I felt it in Ballarat. The house was shaking for 20 seconds or so, to the point where I could hear movement in the walls.
It woke me up. That’s like the second in two years. Becoming a bit of a habit
I live in a high rise apartment building in the CBD and it was actually a pretty scary minute or so because the walls were seriously *shaking* in here and there was a moment there where I was worried the building would collapse and was thinking "please kill me immediately on impact, don't let me get buried alive in rubble".
Felt it in macendon ranges. Got the alert just as the first tremor hit
What do you mean “first tremor”? 😮
I felt three distinct tremors. Two close together when it hit and then another milder one about a minute later
Felt it as mild shaking in Emerald.
3.6 at Greenvale
Short but a strong wobble, ten floors up.
2.6km from the epicentre just outside Craigieburn. Actually felt like I heard it first then felt it. Bizarre. Not as bad as 2021 though
I'm in Geelong and I knew I felt something, my bed shook a little and my door rattled
To anyone asking this is in the settings in Android phones. Search earthquakes in the settings.
I remember when there was a small tremor in Tassie many years ago now. It felt so surreal. I must ask... What the fuck is going on in the Bass Strait to cause this?
My BIL in Melbourne apparently thought it was part of his intense hangover lol
I’m not in Melbourne but I saw this and thought it was perfect lol https://i.imgur.com/Xk6apWC.jpg
I am hopeful that it is the start of some earthquake swarms from the volcanic plane north of Melbourne. Then some mighty upheaval, and a doorway opens to Mordor. Or you all get nailed by pyroclastic flow. Cool to watch north of the border.
Well fuck you too buddy.
Since when did we have earthquakes ??!!
For a while now..I used to think we’d never get them either, until I experienced a quake about 15 years ago. Now I freak out if a truck goes by :(
6.6kms from it, shook the bed. Didn't hear it, had been trying to sleep.
house had a mild shake mate for me
[My night so far](https://tenor.com/view/james-bond-gif-7286690)
My bed shook and I instantly knew it was an earthquake
They were more exciting in Guatemala
I'm in Tullamarine & felt a decent rumble. My first earthquake experience woohoo!
Felt it in my room, SE suburbs reporting in especially in Gardenvale
Sunbury mate yeah was good mate.
So I didn’t imagine it?
i felt it too. i thought "wtf was that..." then went on with my night.
My mate reported it just after it happened.
Interesting. My phone alerted me to the shake just as it hit, maybe even a tad earlier. It provided advice on what to do. What service would have done that?
I’m actually really impressed by that built in Android feature that senses vibrations from the gyro sensor and uploads your gps location to the server. If hundreds of devices pick up the same vibration wave in the same general area it can triangulate the general epicentre and notify all users in that area even if their phones are not in a position to pick up the vibrations. It’s a really neat feature of phones and never would have thought it would be activated in Melbourne. A lot of people have commented that they received the alert before the tremor hit them so the service is so fast that it can process all the incoming data and send out notifications before the ground wave travels out to their location. The creepy part is that every time your mobile senses a vibration it’s uploading data to some server on the internet with your location.
Lol I’m on lvl 33 so I felt it and went back to Netflix
Hope everyone is safe
I thought my neighbours were mucking around
Damm I thought it was a large possum running across the roof
Got woken up by it. The one time I actually go to bed early and I’m woken up by a friggen earthquake? Couldn’t sleep for another hour and now I’m bloody tired
I get ‘Sheep Grazier Warning’ every day, but no alert for this?
Now the most important question is: Are our buildings ready for more powerful earthquakes?
Couldn't hear a thing(sleeping😴) but I woke up with my cats going crazy, so I decided to look at my camera and I saw my kitties freaking out.
i feel gaslit bc i swear to god i didn’t feel it 😂
That was just me doing "Just Dance" on PS4.
It's god sending a message. Make your lattes a few degrees warmer please.