A map of the earthquake's radius from Geoscience Australia.
What could that sound be?
A heavy animal on the roof?
Outside? A gentle roar
No, it's a shaking
The Hut is shaking
Yes, an earthquake
And it's still going, not stopping
But constant
Time enough to consider
The movement of the geological plates
As they made their adjustments
Before calming down
And the quake finished
Only to shake a little later
In the night and in the morning
Though this part of Australia has had earth tremors before, this was Peter's first consciously felt tremor. The Hut seemed to have structure that allowed for a little more dramatic sound, the acoustic walls, the looseness of the windows. We may have missed it completely in the city.
The tremor measured 4.7 on the Richter scale was felt just at 8:55 pm Friday March 6, in places within the green ring on the map. We were located just north of the epicentre at the green/red dot. It was our state's strongest earthquake since 2001, when a 4.8 magnitude tremor was felt in Swan Hill at the north of the state. The epicentre was close to Korumburra, in South Gippsland.
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