Australia is a land full of surprises … and that’s what makes it such a fantastic place to travel in. But along with the incredible sunsets, perfect beaches and magnificent rivers and mountains are the cyclones, the bushfires, the floods … and the earthquakes!
Grey nomads and other travellers – like everybody else in the Melbourne region – were among those shaken and shocked by an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale. A series of tremors shook the city for about 20 seconds evening and was felt by millions of people from Kilmore, Gippsland, Mitcham, Coburg, Kensington, St Albans, Mornington Peninsula, Drouin, Rowville and inner-Melbourne.
Claire McIlroy told the Melbourne Herald Sun she was crossing a street in Ringwood when she heard a rumbling sound. “It sounded like a herd of animals running across a metal roof,” she said. “The person I was visiting met me at the door, saying ‘did you feel that?’ They said everything in their house shook, their daughter woke from her sleep and was crying, and the dog was going berserk.”
