Rare Australia earthquake triggers panic in Melbourne

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'The whole building was shaking. All the windows, the glass, was shaking – like a wave of shaking,' said Zume Phim, owner of Melbourne's Oppen cafe, who rushed onto the street when the temblor hit.

The shallow quake hit east of the country's second-largest city just after 9:00am local time and was felt hundreds of kilometres away.

"It was quite violent but everyone was kind of in shock," Melbourne cafe worker Parker Mayo, 30, told AFP. "We had some very big ones at magnitude six in the late 1800s, though precise magnitudes are not well known." "I was sitting down at work at my desk and I needed to run outside. It took me a while to work out what it was," Mark Holcombe told public broadcaster ABC.

 

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