MELBOURNE, Sept 22 — A shallow quake rattled southeastern Australia early Wednesday, sending panicked residents running into the streets of the second-largest city of Melbourne.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake at 5.8 and said it struck at a depth of 10 kilometres . “It was quite violent but everyone was kind of in shock,” Melbourne cafe worker Parker Mayo, 30, told AFP. The mayor of Mansfield, near the quake epicentre, said there was no damage in the small town but it had taken residents by surprise.
“We don’t have earthquakes that I am aware of — none of the locals I spoke to this morning had that experience with earthquakes here before — so it is one right out of left field.”
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