Researchers are venturing into Licola to study the earthquake

University of Melbourne researchers traveled to Likola recently to study how energy is dispersed from the epicenter of last month’s earthquake.

Josh Farrell

The University of Melbourne sent a group of researchers to the area around Licola and Woods Point to investigate last month’s earthquake.

Associate Professor of Seismology Mark Quigley and his team worked to better understand how the 5.9-magnitude earthquake traveled across Victoria after it struck on September 22.

They are studying how an earthquake acts as energy scattered from the epicenter, since they do not have seismographs 50 kilometers from the epicenter.

Professor Quigley said the patterns of damage they observed were asymmetric and quite variable.

“There are quarters and areas where there was a lot of vibration, and then in some areas where there doesn’t seem to be any strong vibration at all,” he said.

Residents experienced little or no structural damage to buildings and infrastructure, and the area immediately surrounding the epicenter was not affected as many experts had predicted.

“Immediately above the fault and close to the fault, the shaking wasn’t as strong as we had expected – in fact in some places it didn’t look like there was very strong shaking at all,” Professor Quigley said.

Aftershock rates have fallen steadily since the initial quake, with the last aftershock larger than three occurring on September 23.

Professor Quigley said the damage in Melbourne showed that some buildings were not prepared for an event like this, even with minimal vibration that occurred.

“This highlights Melbourne’s vulnerability to very low vibration intensity,” he said.

“…if you look at the distribution of weak structures, the odds are that the more structures you have, the higher the chance of very weak structures,” said Professor Quigley.

He said it was too early to understand if the region would experience more earthquakes of the same magnitude as those seen on September 22.

Researchers still need public support to better understand how the earthquake affected the region.

“We’re working with the community, so we’re asking them to help us locate the damage,” he said.

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