RESIDENTS from Cranbourne and surrounds were all shook up when two small earthquakes were felt in the area at about 6.20 Tuesday night.
The earthquake’s epicentre is estimated to have been about 20km south east of Frankston, but the tremors were felt by Victorians almost 25 kilometres away.
The largest of the two earthquakes measured about 3 on the Richter Scale and the smaller earthquake was about 2.1 to 2.5, David Jepsen, a seismologist with the Geoscience Australia said.
Jordan Smale from Pearcedale said he was asleep when the earthquake hit, but his friend felt everything shake and thought it was from the television.
Cranbourne North resident Lynne Larsen said she had just entered her house when she felt the shake.
“The whole side of the house shook,” she said. “It felt like a semi-trailer was flying past, but I knew straight away it was an earth tremor. It felt like it lasted 30 seconds.”
Steve Beardon, another Cranbourne North resident also felt the tremors. Mr Jepsen said because the earthquakes were small, there were no reports of damage.
“The size of these earthquakes were small and we don’t build infrastructure and houses that can’t withstand earthquakes of these sizes,” Mr Jepsen said.
“It felt like a truck dropped a load—causing us to do similar,” Mr Beardon said.
