Fire, Flood, Pestilence ... and now an Earthquake!

[MelMel]

Bluddy Hell! The whole house just shook wildly for about 30 seconds

 

[moa999]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440455697364226053

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And an earthquake to go

Seemingly a 6.0 earthquake NE of Melbourne

 

[Pushka]

Bluddy Hell! The whole house just shook wildly for about 30 seconds

5.64. Epicentre Gaffy Creek? North of Traralgon. Supposedly also felt in Canberra and Sydney.

 

[pagingjoan]

Nasty - at the top of a Melbourne CBD building!

 

[justinbrett]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1440455697364226053

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And an earthquake to go

Seemingly a 6.0 earthquake NE of Melbourne

I felt it in Newcastle

 

[Hvr]

Well on the good side it's the first time in a long time that the earth has moved for me.

I'm shaken but not stirred.

 

[Batterytraveller]

We had fire, flooding, plague, mice and now an earthquake, it’s locusts next, right?

 

[oz_mark]

We had fire, flooding, plague, mice and now an earthquake, it’s locusts next, right?

Have to work a famine in as well.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Seemingly a 6.0 earthquake NE of Melbourne

Evidently a 6. Centred near Mansfield. Second tremor was 4.
It was also the loudest that I have ever heard by far in Melbourne. Normally I just feel them. This one you very much heard as well.

From a Melbourne perspective it was the largest and longest tremor that I have felt

Isolated damage. But pretty much no damage in most locations.
ie Off Chapel St South Yarra



In that pic, the roof and supporting structure is new, and the new structure may not have been tied properly to the masonry wall at the top, allowing it to flex more in the tremor. Masonry walls are typically weak and need to be tied.

 

[AIRwin]

it’s locusts next, right?

Don't call interstate visitors that...

 

[Pushka]

Don't call interstate visitors that...

Probably not likely to attract interstate visitors currently. Just saying...

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Don't call interstate visitors that...

When I visited Dubrovnik (Kings Landing in Game of Thrones) the locals there called the tourists hordes that descended from each cruise ship white walkers

 

[AisleSeat]

At first I though a big truck was driving down my road, then realised what was happening. That was a big one! Someone on twitter posted a map of fault lines in Melbourne and I live right on top of one.

 

[SydneySwan]

So it is not only civil society that is imploding in Melbourne then .....

 

[MelMel]

Evidently a 6. Centred near Mansfield. Second tremor was 4.
It was also the loudest that I have ever heard by far in Melbourne. Normally I just feel them. This one you very much heard as well.

From a Melbourne perspective it was the largest and longest tremor that I have felt

Isolated damage. But pretty much no damage in most locations.
ie Off Chapel St South Yarra

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In that pic, the roof and supporting structure is new, and the new structure may not have been tied properly to the masonry wall at the top, allowing it to flex more in the tremor. Masonry walls are typically weak and need to be tied.

Interesting........I did wonder if that building was somehow compromised

 

[lovetravellingoz]

So it is not only civil society that is imploding in Melbourne then .....

Epicenter pretty much in the middle of nowhere. 38km south Mt Buller. So up in the hills where it mainly just bush.

Only a tremor in Melbourne and in any regional town. Though one you certainly felt and heard.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Interesting........I did wonder if that building was somehow compromised

As per my pic and comment above:

In that pic, the roof and supporting structure is new, and the new structure may not have been tied properly to the masonry wall at the top, allowing it to flex more in the tremor. Masonry walls are typically weak and need to be tied.

But many possibilities. Masonry facades in earthquakes that fall often do so if not tied back to the structure properly. It may never have been tied (and in particular the top part of the wall may not have been tied if it was built up above the old roofline. The old ties may have corroded. Or the ties at the top where the new work may have been removed and not reinstated, or if so not reinstated adequately.

Or the wall may have had other flaws.

PS. I am an engineer.

 

[moa999]

Masonry facades in earthquakes that fall often do so if not tied back to the structure properly. I

Similar comment on the Whirlpool forum.

Back in the newcastle earthquake, nearly all obvious failures involved early 20th century buildings – particularly parapets.

I worked on the odd parapet or 2, and ones that were supported back to the roof structure were fine, though cracked – ones that just sat by virtue of weight and lime mortar and aligned away from the epi centre fell onto the street below.

just relevant to that bit of damage I've seen so far – as opposed to the major structural failures that happened in newcastle.

I'd also bet pounds to peanuts that the geology of that local area is also sandy – thats where most damage of that nature happened in newcsatsle

 

[VPS]

5.64. Epicentre Gaffy Creek? North of Traralgon. Supposedly also felt in Canberra and Sydney.

didn't you feel it here - I thought the tradies downstairs had done something

 

[Pushka]

didn't you feel it here - I thought the tradies downstairs had done something

Nope. Nothing moved for me here