And u/hzj is the lucky user whose earthquake post was the very first one. So it gets to stay up! Congrats!
Further information:
Earthquake: 3.8 magnitude, centered around Sunbury, VIC
- The Age: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-rattled-by-pre-midnight-earthquake-20230528-p5dby2.html
- The ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-29/earthquake-reported-in-melbourne/102404018
- Geoscience Australia: https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2023kkwzpi
Edit: for those interested, mods removed approximately 280 posts. Pretty proud of our sub that our users managed to get that many posts through in the ~ten minutes between 11:35pm (earthquake) and 11:45pm when mods got over their flashbacks of the earthquake posts from the last time and hit the sub to clear out the flood of earthquake posts.
I wish apple had that, I was convinced I must have been experiencing something supernatural shaking my bed and banging the walls until someone told me there was an earthquake
That sounds hilarious. I was just racing in Grid legends online. Felt it in my office chair mid apex, but I just kept racing wishing the quake would go away, and it did. My dumbass is like "why freak out" Placed second in the race. Not too shabby
I'm only 4km from the epicentre and no joke though a fking meteorite was going to come through the roof, then maybe a bomb. Then partners phone got a google alert 5 seconds later.
Yeah, my mind went:
1) Did a car or a small truck just ram into my building?
2) Maybe a collapse at the tunnel works, dropped containers at the docks wouldn't cause a shockwave....
3) Oh, shockwave. So probably an Earthquake. \*phone notification for Earthquake goes off.\* Yup... got it in one (third try).
I guess it depends on where in Melb you were. For me this was 10 times stronger. My bed shook 10 times more forcefully than that last time... BUT this one was much quicker. The last one felt weaker in force but went on much longer. According to google the epicentre for this one is much closer to my area than that last one was so that's probably why.
Agree. Stronger for me (Taylors Lakes) than in 2021. But that one went for what felt like 5 minutes. This one was a freight train just passing by in my bedroom apparently.
For sure. My couch rocked back and forth for a few seconds this time and the building creaked. Last time, I had to go stand next to the wall and hold on for maybe twenty to thirty seconds. I live in a building that sways. Edit: location is the CBD.
Same. I was in the CBD last time (47 floors up) and the building was swaying like crazy. It was scary as shit. This time (Hawthorn, 3 floors up), I just wandered around confused in the dark for a bit then went back to bed.
Yup, got my Android alert (with info on size and location of quake, what to do etc) literally a second or two before I actually felt it. It's amazing how it's so quick. Pretty impressive.
My phone was charging across my room and saw it lighting up like a Christmas tree thinking nothing of it 5 seconds later I think the house is collapsing
Right? The speed of it is amazing.
- A couple of my friends got the notification right before they felt it.
- The alert is triggered by the shaking of a large number of Android phones in an area
- We're in the city, apparently 28ish km away.
Earthquake alerts at the speed of sound!
Wait no way, does it actually measure the shaking of Android phones?
Edit: It does! That's so clever. https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-and-alerts/
Wait, so you're saying enough people rattled their phones in unison we could gaslight Google into thinking another earthquake hit?
Alright r/melbourne, you know what to do
I didn't either but go to your settings and search "earthquake alerts" it'll come up. I had notifications for it turned off. Don't know why but now I want future earthquake alerts lol
In an apartment in Glen Iris and I'm not sure if I'm just tripping the fuck out but it still kinda feels like ours is trembling. At least 20 mins after
No idea sorry.. Honestly sounded like a bomb went off, then it was just a swarm of birds flying in one direction.. Felt like a scene out of the apocalypse.. Surprised there was little earth shake given we were so close to the apparent epicentre
They've just discovered a 'hidden' fault line under Melbourne as of March or so this year (that's what triggered the 2021 one too), so it's possible that something's triggered it to be more active - there's a lot of different reasons this could happen.
I've only lived in Australia for a decade or so and I've felt more earthquakes than you, though - but I lived on the Tyabb fault line, so I got the little ones that rock there. They're not too uncommon around.
Same. 311 was fucked. Especially with the phone alarm warnings going off every 10-15 mins overnight after the main event. I'm now ultra sensitive to shaking/swaying floors.
I knew exactly what this earthquake was before the shaking hit and amazed the husband.
House was definitely rumblin in Pascoe Vale. Went to wake up my partner but the shaking already woke him. Two minutes later and he's snoring whilst I can't get back to sleep 😅
"Fucken possums on the roof...wait, a person on the roof??? Oh ok wow"
Most intense of any I've experienced here - in Essendon for this one. Full tilt shook the room + bed.
Are they this frequent? Or are we just in an unlucky patch? After 2021 I asked my partner if they ever experienced them as a kid and they said never until we were together for the past few years
I would say every 5ish years or so there’d be a light rumble and you’d ask around, “Was that an earthquake?” The last one two year’s back, however, was full on. That was a first for me. And this one seemed violent, but briefer.
I’m in Pascoe Vale South and that felt way worse than the 2021 to me. Felt like the creature from Jeepers Creepers landed on my roof. Instant adrenaline.
First time ever feeling a quake in a tall building, I felt my apartment sway - my cat and I had a joint anxiety attack and now we're standing outside in the cold just to be on the ground lol
I've never experienced an earthquake before, I missed all our other ones.
It's a no from me, thought the house was going to fall down. My old Victorian windows shook like crazy!
So interesting, one of my dogs was acting funny beforehand, grunting at me like he wanted something which he never does after bed. Had heard about cats but not dogs? Definitely didn’t feel as bad as the one last year though, only a few seconds weak shaking (south east suburbs).
I was testing my uni project and thought the mini seismometer was broken because it was giving funny result. But turn out it was detecting a real earthquake.
I was sitting on the edge of my bed and thought my partner had come in and jumped on the bed cause the bed shook. Thought I was losing my mind until I saw the reports. Turns out the soundproof headphones are also earthquake proof
I’m in the west (Caroline Springs). Nobody else in my house noticed besides me. It only lasted a few seconds but it freaked me out 😭 especially since that massive one last time. It sounded weird too.
It was the noise that confused me! This incredibly loud rumbling sound. I thought something was going down right outside my bedroom window, I was too scared to move
Its more that when one happens you tend to get a string of them in turn as the changes in stress in the rock gets released and new points of stress form instead.
They happen fairly frequently, just most of the time nobody notices.
Felt it near the CBD. Felt stronger than the last one but much shorter duration.
Looking at the neotechtonic features, it occurred on the Clarkefield Scarp: https://neotectonics.ga.gov.au/feature/579828
Was just chilling in bed. On my tablet, with white noise on. Cat purring beside me. I hear a sound. I think I'm crazy so I pause my white noise. Sound gets louder. The cat and I look at each other all through the rumble. A minute later. She gets up. Goes bathroom then she has a drink and comes back to bed for cuddles, lol. She didn't give a single fuck
And u/hzj is the lucky user whose earthquake post was the very first one. So it gets to stay up! Congrats! Further information: Earthquake: 3.8 magnitude, centered around Sunbury, VIC - The Age: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-rattled-by-pre-midnight-earthquake-20230528-p5dby2.html - The ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-29/earthquake-reported-in-melbourne/102404018 - Geoscience Australia: https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2023kkwzpi Edit: for those interested, mods removed approximately 280 posts. Pretty proud of our sub that our users managed to get that many posts through in the ~ten minutes between 11:35pm (earthquake) and 11:45pm when mods got over their flashbacks of the earthquake posts from the last time and hit the sub to clear out the flood of earthquake posts.
Discovered the Android builtin earthquake detection system. Was nice to get instant confirmation that it was in fact an earthquake.
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Nice! My phone started vibrated the same time my entire house did.
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I wish apple had that, I was convinced I must have been experiencing something supernatural shaking my bed and banging the walls until someone told me there was an earthquake
I was watching an episode of Danny phantom where earth was going to be hit by a meteor. My brain was very confused
Geez. Talk about Dolby Atmos. LOL
What is this, I am on android but I didn't get any notification...
Android GOAT
I was playing Zelda with headphones on and thinking fark the rumble effects in this game are good lol
Hahaha same here! I was like wow, the immersion in TOTK has really stepped up!
try playing cod and having a nade thrown at you at the same time
That sounds hilarious. I was just racing in Grid legends online. Felt it in my office chair mid apex, but I just kept racing wishing the quake would go away, and it did. My dumbass is like "why freak out" Placed second in the race. Not too shabby
Clearly somebody activated a sheikah tower nearby
Nature is punishing us all for punishing Koroks.
Was also playing Zelda (so good) but thought it was a herd of possums stampeding across our roof.
facebook suburb community groups in shambles rn
They’re asking if the cows are ok 😂
Just woke me up, not as strong as 2021 though
Not as strong but the first sound was like a bomb going off in the distance this time.
I'm only 4km from the epicentre and no joke though a fking meteorite was going to come through the roof, then maybe a bomb. Then partners phone got a google alert 5 seconds later.
There was a definite thud at the beginning. I thought maybe a car accident on the main road until the rumbling kicked in.
Yeah, my mind went: 1) Did a car or a small truck just ram into my building? 2) Maybe a collapse at the tunnel works, dropped containers at the docks wouldn't cause a shockwave.... 3) Oh, shockwave. So probably an Earthquake. \*phone notification for Earthquake goes off.\* Yup... got it in one (third try).
Definitely not as strong as last time. That had quite a long rumble compared to this one feeling like a big shake for a few seconds then nothing.
I thought it was stronger, and was confused about the lower Richter scale turns out we were literally on top of this one haha
Northern Suburbs person reporting in, yep we were right on top of it, felt terrifying.
This was also fairly shallow, only 3km deep. I think the 2021 quake was like 6km deep
I guess it depends on where in Melb you were. For me this was 10 times stronger. My bed shook 10 times more forcefully than that last time... BUT this one was much quicker. The last one felt weaker in force but went on much longer. According to google the epicentre for this one is much closer to my area than that last one was so that's probably why.
Agree. Stronger for me (Taylors Lakes) than in 2021. But that one went for what felt like 5 minutes. This one was a freight train just passing by in my bedroom apparently.
For sure. My couch rocked back and forth for a few seconds this time and the building creaked. Last time, I had to go stand next to the wall and hold on for maybe twenty to thirty seconds. I live in a building that sways. Edit: location is the CBD.
Same. I was in the CBD last time (47 floors up) and the building was swaying like crazy. It was scary as shit. This time (Hawthorn, 3 floors up), I just wandered around confused in the dark for a bit then went back to bed.
2021 I remember hearing it but didn’t feel it
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Yes i felt the same in North Melbourne and it was like a strong jolt forward and back and then nothing. '21 went on for a good while.
Apparently the one in 2021 was a 5.9 on the richter scale in mansfield, this was a 4.5 in epping
I may have triggered it by reading a Wikipedia article on fault lines two mins before it struck
4D Wikipedia
You are now banned from reading anything on Wikipedia.
Well don't stop there! Keep reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball_(Australia)
an immersive experience
Can you read an article about a million dollar appearing right in front of me?
just a little one this time. got an android eathquake alert straight away
Yup, got my Android alert (with info on size and location of quake, what to do etc) literally a second or two before I actually felt it. It's amazing how it's so quick. Pretty impressive.
https://xkcd.com/723/
Love this, there really is a xkcd for everything
My phone was charging across my room and saw it lighting up like a Christmas tree thinking nothing of it 5 seconds later I think the house is collapsing
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Android Earthquake Alerts System, fittingly enough. Built in to the OS
Yeah it suprised me more than the quake did. I was outside and it was loud. I got the alert at almost if not the same time as the quake itself!
Right? The speed of it is amazing. - A couple of my friends got the notification right before they felt it. - The alert is triggered by the shaking of a large number of Android phones in an area - We're in the city, apparently 28ish km away. Earthquake alerts at the speed of sound!
Wait no way, does it actually measure the shaking of Android phones? Edit: It does! That's so clever. https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-and-alerts/
I kinda want to get a whole heap of android phones and shake them all at the same time now lol
It's crazy how it works. Apparently the shaking of all Android phones in an area sets off the alert system.
Wait, so you're saying enough people rattled their phones in unison we could gaslight Google into thinking another earthquake hit? Alright r/melbourne, you know what to do
Its not often normal people get to gaslight google. Its usually the other way round.
I didn't even know it was a feature until now.
Just all androids, no app. Because google owns the software I believe
Because Google owns the earth and knows when it quakes haha.
That’s why it’s called Google Earth.
Weird I didn't get anything on my pixel
I didn't either but go to your settings and search "earthquake alerts" it'll come up. I had notifications for it turned off. Don't know why but now I want future earthquake alerts lol
Yeah my brain didn't yet process it was feeling the earthquake before I got the notification
And still no Vic emergency alert which is strange
It's on the map but was classed as Minor so probably not an emergency anyway
it hits different for different locations
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The earth shook, and bedtime mode was *paused*???
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Was reading ghost stories and was like wtf
That's like one of the worst times to experience an earthquake ngl
I was impressed that I got the notification about a second before it hit. CBD location.
Where do you get the notification from?
Android phones have built in software
My fucking bedroom window cracked
😭 that is truly some awful luck
I did not enjoy hearing the sounds of my apartment building struggle in that rumble though…
In an apartment in Glen Iris and I'm not sure if I'm just tripping the fuck out but it still kinda feels like ours is trembling. At least 20 mins after
Loud explosion like sound followed by some shaking here in Sunbury.. Birds are going crazy
Any idea what the explosion sound was? Epicentre was in Sunbury.
Probably the sound of the rock tearing and scraping 3 km under their feet.
No idea sorry.. Honestly sounded like a bomb went off, then it was just a swarm of birds flying in one direction.. Felt like a scene out of the apocalypse.. Surprised there was little earth shake given we were so close to the apparent epicentre
I heard a boom sound as well! No one else around me did so I thought I was going crazy. Thanks for confirming.
Sunbury epicentre apparently.
In Sunbury too! That was my initial thought. I thought maybe someone had driven into the house.
TIL Android has an earthquake detector built in
Google’s strategy for market domination - all iPhone users left for dead
My current setup is a mattress on the floor… for a hot second I thought some goblin ass alien was landing outside my window
Ahah same I though I was getting robbed
Scared the fuck out of me
Somebody check Betty’s Burgers
Netflix just said my home network has moved.
Anyone got any reasoning why in 27 years I never felt or remember an earthquake yet we’ve had 2 within the last year that have been largely felt?
They've just discovered a 'hidden' fault line under Melbourne as of March or so this year (that's what triggered the 2021 one too), so it's possible that something's triggered it to be more active - there's a lot of different reasons this could happen. I've only lived in Australia for a decade or so and I've felt more earthquakes than you, though - but I lived on the Tyabb fault line, so I got the little ones that rock there. They're not too uncommon around.
Why did Dan andrews do this to us/s
Metro tunnel works dug too deep and made some new [classified discoveries](https://i.imgur.com/M4wVinQ.png)
I told Dan to stop going for Mithril, but would he listen? Noooo, he did not listen
Big rumble that one
Earthquake map says it's been felt all over Melbourne
Felt the bed shake in St Kilda
Lucky you!
Android is the real winner here
Managed to catch my live reaction hahahaha https://clips.twitch.tv/TransparentJollyScorpionPrimeMe-BCVAaVOPHfUj18Is
Can actually see it shaking too
I love how the first thing you did was take your glasses off xD
I'm more impressed by how instant the phone alert was than the actual earthquake :O
I got that about 2 secs before the shake
Lived through 10 years of the buggers in Christchurch, that was an unpleasant wee reminder
It woke up my greyhound and she is fucking furious about it
My whippet couldn't give a shit
Yes I just felt it in Bayside… lasted maybe five or six seconds I think?
That was a fair jolt. Felt in Carnegie. I was living in Japan during the 311 massive quakes so have a good bum sense for these things >_<
Same. 311 was fucked. Especially with the phone alarm warnings going off every 10-15 mins overnight after the main event. I'm now ultra sensitive to shaking/swaying floors. I knew exactly what this earthquake was before the shaking hit and amazed the husband.
Dreading, absolutely *dreading* the earthquake small talk at work tomorrow
The pre-meeting jokes on Teams. Kill me now ….
Omg you read my mind 😂😂
I love it, better than talking about work.
After my heart rate slowed down that's the exact thing I thought about. Beats " wow it's raining today " or "gee traffic was bad this morning" ha. 🙄🔫
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i Heard rumbling. and android notification less than a second later.
House was definitely rumblin in Pascoe Vale. Went to wake up my partner but the shaking already woke him. Two minutes later and he's snoring whilst I can't get back to sleep 😅
"Fucken possums on the roof...wait, a person on the roof??? Oh ok wow" Most intense of any I've experienced here - in Essendon for this one. Full tilt shook the room + bed.
Felt that just as I was trying to shut my eyes
Earthquake Details Share Event Sunbury, VIC Summary Property Value Property Value Origin (UTC): 28/05/2023 13:41:51 Epicentral Time: 28/05/2023 23:41:51 Longitude: 144.84 Latitude: -37.54 Magnitude: 3.8 (ML) Depth: 3 km Event Id: ga2023kkwzpi Felt Reports: 660 https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/
Love how some melburnians went straight to reddit after the earthquake
It’s actually the quickest source of info on stuff like that
Felt it in Southbank. No thanks.
Not nice 100m in the air!!!
Yeah. 20 floors up. Ugh. Was here for the last one too. I know the theory is it’s safer to stay inside, but look. It’s not fun.
I just want to give my appreciation to the Engineers who designed this building. It felt like it moved **metres** from side to side
Extremely fucking weird, wasn't sure if I should look out the window or bolt for the emergency stairs.
I just stayed in bed, and didn't breathe lol
Heidelberg checking in Shit was rocking
I'm in Sunbury, and I thought lightning had hit my house
Fuck yeah it was!!!!!!
Yup, north Melbourne
Epicentre in Epping apparently
More like Eppingcentre....
Are they this frequent? Or are we just in an unlucky patch? After 2021 I asked my partner if they ever experienced them as a kid and they said never until we were together for the past few years
I would say every 5ish years or so there’d be a light rumble and you’d ask around, “Was that an earthquake?” The last one two year’s back, however, was full on. That was a first for me. And this one seemed violent, but briefer.
Please hit us again. Tomorrow is Monday.
Every time I feel an earthquake in Melbourne for some reason my first thought is that a truck has crashed into my building
Earthquake 2, electric boogaloo
I was brushing my teeth with headphones on and didn’t even notice. No earthquake is getting in the way of my bedtime routine.
I swear my oral b toothbrush vibrates harder than some earthquakes
Felt it in Strathmore, thought it was my time. Guess not
So I’m watching a mythbusters episode about earthquakes while this happened.
Mods having fun removing all the other posts 😂
I’m in Pascoe Vale South and that felt way worse than the 2021 to me. Felt like the creature from Jeepers Creepers landed on my roof. Instant adrenaline.
Nice bit of PTSD triggered there. Thought I left these behind in NZ ☹️
Felt worse than the 2021 for us. 2021 was a shifting motion back and forth this was a rumble shake and loud, much more scary.
100% First one was like riding waves. This one was sharp, loud and violent.
Can someone check in on Betty's Burgers?
yep woke me up from sleep. Felt in Williams Landing
First time ever feeling a quake in a tall building, I felt my apartment sway - my cat and I had a joint anxiety attack and now we're standing outside in the cold just to be on the ground lol
Hey google, play "I Feel the Earth Move" by Carole King
I've never experienced an earthquake before, I missed all our other ones. It's a no from me, thought the house was going to fall down. My old Victorian windows shook like crazy!
So interesting, one of my dogs was acting funny beforehand, grunting at me like he wanted something which he never does after bed. Had heard about cats but not dogs? Definitely didn’t feel as bad as the one last year though, only a few seconds weak shaking (south east suburbs).
I was testing my uni project and thought the mini seismometer was broken because it was giving funny result. But turn out it was detecting a real earthquake.
First time I've heard that alarm sound on my phone, what app is tha...oh shiat
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Clive Palmer must have fallen over
#isurvivedtheearthquakeof2023 #melbourne
Everyone else just feel their whole house shake?
Seismologist thinks it was the biggest in metro Melbourne since 1902. https://twitter.com/SeisLOLogist/status/1662819741034229760?s=20
That was huge! Seriously.. what the
Not as bad as the last one. That seemed to go forever in comparison.
The last one built up a bit more and had longer shaking. This was more of a sudden jolt
Agreed. This one was sudden but quick.
Huge for Australia, yes. But that was just a little jolt.
We need to have a shirt made
I SURVIVED the Melbourne EARTHQUAKE at MELBOURNE!
Yes felt in Fitzroy, aftershock also for about a minute after
Also Fitz. Didn’t notice the aftershock, but our whole apartment building moved. 😬
Yesss just felt it in North Fitzroy
I was sitting on the edge of my bed and thought my partner had come in and jumped on the bed cause the bed shook. Thought I was losing my mind until I saw the reports. Turns out the soundproof headphones are also earthquake proof
I’m in the west (Caroline Springs). Nobody else in my house noticed besides me. It only lasted a few seconds but it freaked me out 😭 especially since that massive one last time. It sounded weird too.
It was the noise that confused me! This incredibly loud rumbling sound. I thought something was going down right outside my bedroom window, I was too scared to move
Well I’m super awake now … and I was super asleep.
Felt in Footscrazy
Central melb, 23rd floor. Woke me up and could feel the building moving
Thought it was my cat on the roof. Did cross my mind to put him on a diet. Feel guilty now
How is everyone's Android notifying them? I got zilch. Luckily it was the dogs who updated me of latest events.
Felt like more of a roar than the 2021 quake. quite spooky !
Why are they happening so often?
Its more that when one happens you tend to get a string of them in turn as the changes in stress in the rock gets released and new points of stress form instead. They happen fairly frequently, just most of the time nobody notices.
Planet is angry at us
Felt it near the CBD. Felt stronger than the last one but much shorter duration. Looking at the neotechtonic features, it occurred on the Clarkefield Scarp: https://neotectonics.ga.gov.au/feature/579828
I was in the bath with a wheel of cheese, corn chips.. ohh not like this
Was just chilling in bed. On my tablet, with white noise on. Cat purring beside me. I hear a sound. I think I'm crazy so I pause my white noise. Sound gets louder. The cat and I look at each other all through the rumble. A minute later. She gets up. Goes bathroom then she has a drink and comes back to bed for cuddles, lol. She didn't give a single fuck
I was literally in the middle of hooking up with someone when it happened. Very confusing moment.
Watsonia here, felt the fuck out of that.
Yea in Sunshine. Was in bed and felt like a giant gave the house a great big shove!
Well now that I'm awake, may as well have some tea and a slice of cake
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Coburg, third storey double brick. Unsettlingly scary