A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more
The Conversation · 5 Oct 2026

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more

At just after 2am on Saturday morning, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred at Arawata, about six kilometres northeast of Korumburra and 100km southeast of Melbourne. Residents closest to the epicentre described a loud bang – a phenomenon which occurs only in the epicentral region of an earthquake, w


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