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Old 08-03-2007, 01:42 PM   #1
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Default wtf was that?! did we just have a little earthquake or something?!
I am in pakenham and the ground just got excited a couple of times, anyone else?
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:43 PM   #2
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Someone have a bad curry last night perhaps?
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:45 PM   #3
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Someone have a bad curry last night perhaps?
lol must have been pretty bad!

After the first one i went 'huh what was that!' then when it started again I started to get concerned lol, maybe it was a bomb or something, I have no idea be interested to know if anyone else felt/heard it!

It was interesting feeling the whole earth move beneth me.... :yeees:
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:49 PM   #4
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Yes felt it to here at c ockatoo.
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:52 PM   #5
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Yes felt it to here at c ockatoo.
Phew nice to know I'm not dreaming these things....

C ockatoo is what probably about 30km's (wild guess...) from Pakenham so whatever it was it was fairly big I guess, thinking mini earthquake still...
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:53 PM   #6
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Yeah I'm in Paky Upper, was more impressive than the last one.
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Old 08-03-2007, 01:56 PM   #7
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Yeah I'm in Paky Upper, was more impressive than the last one.
Yeah I have felt them before a couple of times but not like this.
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Old 08-03-2007, 02:28 PM   #8
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I'm in Mount Evelyn and felt it.

Heard on the radio it was an earth tremour, epicentre 15km NE of Dandy, between 3.5 and 4 on the reichter scale.
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Old 08-03-2007, 02:33 PM   #9
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Yeah felt in Croydon.... Crazy stuff!
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Old 08-03-2007, 02:35 PM   #10
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Its on the herald sun website now... http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...92-661,00.html
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Old 08-03-2007, 03:27 PM   #11
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I'm in Mount Evelyn and felt it.

Heard on the radio it was an earth tremour, epicentre 15km NE of Dandy, between 3.5 and 4 on the reichter scale.
oh ok thanks, i wonder how powerful that is relatively compared to a nasty one and also compared to a really small tremour like I've felt before?..
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Yeah felt in Croydon.... Crazy stuff!
Yeah agreed! Must be global warming! lol

Actually maybe I shouldn't joke about things I know nothing about.... :

Thanks for the link will have a look.
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Old 08-03-2007, 03:36 PM   #13
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oh ok thanks, i wonder how powerful that is relatively compared to a nasty one and also compared to a really small tremour like I've felt before?..
It's a strange sensation isn't it. At first i thought it was a truck going past or something, but there was no noise really. Went for a while too..

I've felt little ones before, but never known what they were till heard later on news or something and thought, oh yeah i remember a strange shaking..

Would be quite an experience being in a big one, not that i would want to be.

If one more person says "did the earth move for you?"...
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It's a strange sensation isn't it. At first i thought it was a truck going past or something, but there was no noise really. Went for a while too..

I've felt little ones before, but never known what they were till heard later on news or something and thought, oh yeah i remember a strange shaking..

Would be quite an experience being in a big one, not that i would want to be.

If one more person says "did the earth move for you?"...

Yeah at first I had no idea what it was but when it kept going I knew, I am the same as you in the past I have felt them but thought almost nothing of it at the time.

My missus says "did the earth move for you?" every night so I guess I'm used to it....
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Update: It struck at 1.34pm in the Bunyip State Park, 70km east of Melbourne.

Glad they clarified that... I was thinking I must have been pretty much standing on it if it was 15kms NE of Danynong!
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I was just reading a thread about this on Nissansilvia.com
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I was just reading a thread about this on Nissansilvia.com
Probably used it as an excuse for stuffing up their drifts :
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Damn, I've slept through 2 or 3 of these in the past, and when I am awake they are on the other side of town. :
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On the news now.

3.7 on the richter scale. No reported damage yet.

Australia is moving Northward at 7cm per year they said !!
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nissan silvias feel it rumble all the time... those guys still can't figure it out.. but we all know its from their ridiculous cannon exhausts.
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Damn, I've slept through 2 or 3 of these in the past, and when I am awake they are on the other side of town. :
Yeah my missus was in Clayton and didn't feel a thing...
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On the news now.

3.7 on the richter scale. No reported damage yet.

Australia is moving Northward at 7cm per year they said !!

So are all the continents moving the same way or are we going to have a head on! Actually I think it's the plates that move isn't it which means anything could happen.... I guess I won't be around to worry about it probably have to move a few thousand kms so um 2000 km = 200000000 cm/7 = 28.5 million years.... yeah pretty sure I won't live that long lol. BTW if the math is wrong i don't want to know ok :
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nissan silvias feel it rumble all the time... those guys still can't figure it out.. but we all know its from their ridiculous cannon exhausts.
haha thats good
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