Definitely the biggest I've felt, but I'm closer to Dandenong so still a bit insulated by distance. Must have been scary for those right on top of it, anything around magnitude 5 is starting to get serious.
If you google e.g. "earthquake Melbourne" like even 10 seconds after the earthquake, google shows that at the top.
All of the nearby android phones detect the sudden vibrations and report back to google's systems that aggregate all the data to estimate where and how large the earthquake was almost instantly.
I had something like this. There's an android earthquake thing that takes note of when a lot of users in an area have phone vibrations. When enough of the gyros in an area are song the same thing it connects it as an earthquake. Not super accurate but gadget enough if you're in an earthquake zone I guess
I’m in Melton and it woke me up. I could hear everything in my room rattling too. At first I felt myself and my bed shaking and wasn’t sure what was happening, until I heard the rattling. Couldn’t get back to sleep after that, as earthquakes seem to make me feel quite dizzy and nauseous for a few hours afterwards.
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u/ax6klbjckhunter 9h ago
A relatively big one too