An earthquake strikes the small town of Port, Victoria

Residents of the small Victorian town of Port woke up to a 3.4-magnitude earthquake early this morning.

Key points: Residents say they felt the ground move, but there are no reports of damage Victoria has recorded 641 earthquakes of all sizes in the last 23 years

Geoscience Australia reports that 71 people in the town of 940 felt the earth move at 2.30am.

The earthquake occurred about 10 kilometers underground.

Paul Howe lives less than 10km from the epicenter and says it was probably the strongest quake in Port in more than two decades.

He said the house shook and the whole family woke up to the sound of thunder.

“I had my grandchildren here from Melbourne and my daughter,” said Mr Howe.

“You could hear everything on the balcony banging.”

Paul Howe says the intensity of the quake took him and his family by surprise (ABC Wimmera: Andrew Kelso)

Robert Coates lives in Fernyhorst, about 20 minutes southeast of the epicenter.

He said he thought something might be wrong with his house.

“There was this great rumble,” he said.

“You could feel the bed shaking and the windows shaking and everything.”

The state emergency service did not receive any calls for help and there were no reports of damage.

Hundreds of earthquakes have been recorded

Tanya Begich, senior seismologist at Geoscience Australia, said 90 earthquakes had been recorded within 200km of Boort since 2000.

“Earthquakes happen frequently in that area on that kind of scale — on a scale of 2 to 3, roughly,” she said.

“This is very consistent with what we’re observing through earthquakes across the state of Victoria.”

More than 640 earthquakes have been recorded in Victoria in the past 23 years.

Dr Begić said the strongest earthquake was with a magnitude of 5.9 in September 2021, followed by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in 2012.

She said Victoria and Western Australia were among the most seismically active in the country, along with South Australia’s Flinders Rangers.

Not many of them have been reported [as] It felt ‘us’, because a lot of it happens outside populated areas…so people generally don’t realize that Australia has earthquakes,” said Dr Begić.

“In Australia, we see few big earthquakes…but we see a lot of these kind of small earthquakes.”

There could still be seismic activity within tectonic plates, she said, but it was generally characterized by frequent small earthquakes.

“You can’t rule out the possibility of a larger one at any given time,” she said.

In the event of an earthquake of any size, Dr. Pejic said people should get down on all fours, seek cover under a sturdy object, such as a table, and grab onto a piece of it.

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