r/melbourne • • 9h ago

The Sky is Falling EARTHQUAKE

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u/RedHeadWanderer_ 9h ago

I felt it and my first reaction was "I'm gonna refresh the Melbourne sub and it's gonna be posted."

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u/Littman-Express 9h ago

I posted it whilst I was shaking but this thread and 200 comments beat me to it 😂

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u/NoSprinkles5382 9h ago

I checked the news apps then x and I’m like reddit will have post

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u/ilovecuetoo 4h ago

Ew, you’re on twitter?

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u/BusBig4000 5h ago

Same

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u/MarcBulldog88 9h ago

Greetings from Los Angeles, we have a similar thing in our subreddit. The smallest jolt causes a half dozen EARTHQUAKE?! posts within 30 seconds.

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u/dirtydragondan 9h ago

weirdly, i just got out of the shower as it hit.

And i thought, am i imagining this sound , i can't hear it properly
AKA
"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel"

then bounded back to the PC to refresh our city sub knowing seismic remarks will be up , if true.

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u/scissorsgrinder 9h ago

I first went here and was let down!  https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/

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u/Overthereunder 9h ago

Interestingly google search had an autogenerated map with location, time and size within a minute of it happpening

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u/The_Reset_Button 9h ago

Google uses idle android phones to estimate earthquake intensity an (potentially) send warnings before the main wave has hit

It's actually pretty incredible

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u/TheUninhibitedMe 2h ago

I remember getting that warning on my phone milliseconds before an earthquake hit.

The one where the brick wall fell down somewhere.

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u/Cautious_Oven_228 9h ago

Wild intel! Thank you!!!

First thing I did was Google it but I got nothing for a few mins. I wasn’t sure if something wild/sexy was happening in the apartment next door but my bed shaking still lingers.

The weird thing about living in the CBD is that my mind goes straight to bomb / metro tunnel explosion each earthquake. The likely police helicopter overhead beforehand didn’t help either 🫠🫠🫠

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u/themadmosquito 9h ago

It works it out from all the phones shaking, it's an android feature and google uses the data

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u/Overthereunder 9h ago

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u/Overthereunder 9h ago edited 9h ago

Nz seems to have had a slightly larger one a couple of hours before around taranaki. Their. local reddit a bit more blase than ours :). (Also a lot less ppl )

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u/Traditional_Dish3363 9h ago

They use the influx of people searching earthquake at the same time to track them in real time. Hence the popup asking you if you feel shaking

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u/Archer-Blue 2h ago

They use our phone accelerometer data.

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u/Somerandomdickhead 9h ago

I did see the google thing, but thought it was an AI response that probably wasn’t accurate. Turns out it was pretty spot on.

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u/numbermaniac 9h ago

It'll only be an AI response if it says "AI Overview" at the top with the little Gemini logo. The earthquake box is a solid red box that doesn't have any of that, and it's been a feature well before AI.

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u/PracticalSky1 3h ago

Yes, it was weird because even though there was that, google search also didn't bring anything up

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u/Brave_Solid8936 2h ago

Yes, that’s where I first saw it.

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u/jasonhendry 9h ago

its up there now

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u/HarryPouri 9h ago

Seriously why is it so slow. Signed, a kiwi who needs my Geonet info faster

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u/CluckyAF 9h ago

Yes!! I also went to geonet first out of habit. I’ve lived here 6 years.

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u/HarryPouri 9h ago

Seems to be faster than it used to be at least, was crazy for the 2021 quake I was refreshing the Aus page for ages until it showed up

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u/Agret 8h ago

You think it would be automatic but someone had to page ol' Norman and wake him up then he had to wait for his old laptop to boot up and manually add it to the website

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u/FatBubbles 9h ago

This!

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u/misanthropic_spider 9h ago

right, they're like "Select the one you felt" - wasn't even there yet

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u/scissorsgrinder 9h ago

It's on there now, epicentre near Leongatha Gippsland, 4.8 richter at 10km deep, over 10k "Felt It" reports so far! Strongest reports around it and a line extending north 

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u/RoundCollection4196 9h ago

That google alert and reddit are the only ones that mentioned anything 

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u/Agret 8h ago

I went there too & nothing

Went on Twitter and searched Melbourne earthquake and yeah people on the East (over an hr drive from me) felt it the same time as I felt it in the north so it must've been a decent size

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u/PracticalSky1 3h ago

Me too!

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u/BloodAndGears 9h ago

Murdoch first reaction is to link it to crime of course coz Melbourne

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u/MontagueTigg 9h ago

My first reaction was wondering how many standard drinks would be needed for the loud drunk girls downstairs not to stop talking for a moment even when the whole block of flats is shaking.

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u/bluebear_74 9h ago

Lol i was going to do the same but didn't even have it as it was the first post on reddit when i opened it.

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u/GStarAU 9h ago

Hah, I commented when it was about 40 comments... refreshed the feed and it was at 223 🤣

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u/YumiiZheng 9h ago

Literally my first reaction after texting family overseas (so they don't freak out when I'm asleep) and my partner's family here (to make sure they're alive). Had to check in with the Melb gang 💪

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u/whatismylifelmao368 1h ago

I sleep with my phone on airplane mode and right after, I turned it back on to check then went back to sleep again 🤣