‘A snap then a rumble': Earthquake rocks Mornington Peninsula
The earthquake struck at 4.39am on Thursday at Main Ridge, near Red Hill, at a depth of 10 kilometres.
The quake prompted more than 400 people to make reports to Geoscience Australia.
A Rye resident who felt the tremor told 3AW it lasted about 5 to 10 seconds.
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'I was just dozing it sounded like a snap and then a rumble,' he said.
Geoscience seismographs detected the tremor at stations spanning from Rosebud on the peninsula to Hallett in eastern South Australia, Cobar in outback NSW and the Tasmanian capital of Hobart.
Earthquake expert Adam Pascale said residents up to 30 kilometres from the epicentre are the most likely to have felt it.
'If you're in a taller building, it might rock a little bit more because of the resonant frequency... but generally, for something of this sort of magnitude, maybe 20 or 30 kilometres,' he told 3AW.
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