Buildings shook across Victoria on Wednesday morning just after 9am, with residents from metropolitan Melbourne to Geelong to Gippsland reporting violent shaking. Experts are warning there will be hundreds of aftershocks.
At the quake’s epicentre just south of Mansfield, the ground probably moved about 10 centimetres, but experts say Victorian buildings are made to withstand the kind of shaking experienced on Wednesday morning.
The Prime Minister has flagged federal emergency support after a magnitude six earthquake left a trail of damaged buildings and shaken residents in Victoria.