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[Reference Info: Mini earthquake. OK, barely-perceptible tremor. But Melbourne is not on a fault line so this is exciting for us... humour the crazy people here.]

I have decided that fatigue disorders give one awesome detection ability for earthquakes - I tend to spend almost all my time lying flat in bed without moving and have thus felt 2 of the last 3 decent quakes in Melbourne!

I was asleep during the middle one, which tells you one of the drawbacks of fatigue for an earthquake spotter... :)

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From:

dragonsally

I'm so peeved that we didn't feel a damn thing!

From:

koriyuri.livejournal.com

So I wasn't imagining things! I started a new med yesterday and thought I was going a bit cuckoo and hallucinating or something.

From: (Anonymous)

We in Auckland area had an mini earthquake last Friday evening that wasn't felt over here but did swing around from west of central down through to Southern suburbs...

Of course the Cantarbians didn't think it was terribly important as it was only 2.9! And most people south of here think Auckland is just a spoilt brat in many ways :-)

Still not good to hear of 2/3 you've had...

From:

acelightning

here is a source (run by the US government) for information about earthquakes world-wide. you can set it up to email you and/or send you text messages about earthquakes, with various filters. i've got it set to email me and send a text message to my phone when there are any quakes at all, no matter how small, within 200 km of my location, and to email me when there are any "moderate" or above quakes in the US, and any moderate-to-severe quakes anywhere in the world. but the filters are almost infinitely configurable.

i've felt two earthquakes in my life, both very, very minor, both when i lived somewhat north of New York City. actually, i heard them more than i felt them. with the first one, i thought it was a large noisy truck going past on the street just outside my apartment. the second one sounded more like the oil-burning furnace having trouble igniting - i was living in a house by then, and afterwards i discovered that a lot of the nails that held the wallboard in place throughout the house had popped up by about 1 cm.

i have never experienced an earthquake that actually felt as if something was moving.
(yet.)

From:

vass

I was asleep today. I only felt one of the recent earthquakes.

From:

jeshyr

Well, you might have been hallucinating but you didn't hallucinate the earthquake at least :)

Hope the med helps!

From:

jeshyr

Both the ones I experienced felt like "the earth moving", but lying on a fairly solid surface (ie: bed) is pretty much the ideal situation in which to perceive such ... as noted :)

From:

onceamy

I heard the 1st major one around here (SE Victoria & Melbourne), but the rest? I must have been completely comatose! I woke up to the power station letting off a lot of steam once, but obviously not earthquakes.

From:

acelightning

the first time i felt a quake, i was standing up, but i felt a fair amount of vibration - exactly what i'd feel if a big rattly truck went past (my ground-floor flat was right on the street). i was closer to the epicenter of that one. for the second one, i was lying in bed, upstairs, but i felt only a very little vibration.

my son lived in California, in the "Silicon Valley" area, for a year, while he was going to grad school at Stanford. he said there were little tremors like that several times a day, and somewhat stronger ones a few times a week, and nobody paid any attention ;-)

From:

jeshyr

This home and the one I was living in when I felt the previous one were both concrete slab homes set back from the road (this one's back a lot further, but the other one was on a side street) so neither regularly shake from any regular cause.

I can't imagine living somewhere where small quakes were routine, they make my insides ... well ... quake!

From:

jeshyr

Power station's close enough you can hear it? Wow!

I'm very very very much wanting to move back out of Melbourne and into the SE Vic area but my family has a holiday place near Wonthaggi so if I want visitors I've pretty much got to be on the SE Freeway and Bass Coast freeway/highway route which is a bit away from you.