Melbourne and surrounding regions were shaken late last night by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake.
Hundreds of people in and around the city reported feeling or being awakened by a sudden tremor shortly before 1 a.m. Friday.
Authorities confirmed that the earthquake occurred near Leongatha, in the Gippsland region of Victoria, at 12:49 a.m., 135 kilometers southeast of Melbourne.
Initial estimates measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 4.3, with a depth of 7 kilometers.
The earthquake was felt from as far north as Sunbury in Melbourne to Wilson’s Promontory National Park in the south, according to Geoscience Australia.
There are no reports of injuries or damage in this first stage, according to Victoria SES.
Australians took to social media to describe being woken up by the impact, including seismologist Adam Pascale.
Hundreds of people in and around the city reported feeling or being awakened by a sudden tremor shortly before 1 a.m. Friday.
“It woke me up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, so I’m sure a lot of people across the city have felt this,” Pascale told TikTok viewers in an early morning video.
“There could be continued aftershocks, so we’ll see.”
More than 2,500 Victorians filed reports two hours after the earthquake.
The Bureau of Meteorology reported there was no tsunami threat.
On the other side of the world, Melbourne, in the US state of Florida, was also shaken by a magnitude 4.0 earthquake at around the same time.
The tremor comes after a magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck regional Victoria on Tuesday.
The above earthquake was recorded by Geoscience Australia about 45 kilometers south of Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley in regional Victoria at 12:15 on Tuesday.
It struck at a “very shallow depth” about 1 km below the surface and may have been felt about 35 km from the epicenter.
Residents of towns including Foster, Mirboo North, Leongatha, Meeniyan and Morwell reported experiencing the earthquake, which would have felt like a “light vibration”.
It is believed to have been too weak to be felt by residents of larger towns further away from the epicenter, such as Traralgon and Warragul.
Melbourne was shaken late at night by a 4.3 magnitude earthquake