more quaking

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake has been felt in Melbourne and eastern Victoria, 12 days after a similar tremor.
The tremor occurred about 5km northeast of Korumburra, 100km southeast of Melbourne, at 4.28pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
The epicentre is in the same area of an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale which hit on March 6.
The Seismology Research Centre said an aftershock sequence is expected to continue.
There have been no reports of damage and it is unlikely an earthquake of this magnitude and depth will cause any significant damage, the centre's website said.

Roo crash

A kangaroo has crashed through the bedroom window of a Canberra family's home before terrorising its unsuspecting occupants.The family, from the suburb of Garran in Canberra's south, were awoken in the early hours of Sunday when their pet dog began barking from the garden.Moments later, a kangaroo burst through a three metre high window of the house's master bedroom and onto the bed where Beat Ettlin, his partner Verity Beman and their nine-year-old daughter Beatrix lay."My initial thought when I was half awake was: it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window," Mr Ettlin told The Associated Press."It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in."While the family took refuge under the blankets, the injured animal proceeded to jump on top of them, gouging holes in the furniture and smearing blood all over the walls.The next thing Mr Ettlin heard was his 10-year-old son Leighton screaming from his bed: "There's a 'roo in my room!'""I thought, this can be really dangerous for the whole family now," the 42-year-old said.A chef, originally from the Swiss city of Stans, Mr Ettlin followed the thrashing and bleeding two metre tall marsupial and wrestled it into a headlock before dragging it down the hallway and out the front door.Left wearing just his shredded underpants and with scratch marks on his leg and buttocks, Mr Ettlin described himself as "lucky"."I had just my Bonds undies on. I felt vulnerable," he said.As quickly as it had come, the kangaroo vanished into a nearby reserve and the family reported the intrusion to police and wildlife authorities.
Ms Beman praised her husband's courage and said she didn't know many men who would go head-to-head with a kangaroo."I think he's a hero, a hero in Bonds undies," she said.

Quaking Melbourne

Victoria's east has been rocked by an earth tremor,on 6/3/09 in the evening with residents reporting Melbourne buildings shaking across the metropolitan area.Geoscience Australia, which monitors earthquake activity, said the tremor measured magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale , with the epicentre at Korumburra, about 90 kilometres south-east of Melbourne .The quake happened just before 9:00pm AEDT, and while there were no reports of injury, 000, media outlets and the Bureau of Meteorology were flooded with calls from people wanting to know what had happened.John Schneider, from Geoscience Australia, says the the region has not seen an earthquake of that magnitude in over a decade."The last earthquake of any significant size in that area was the magnitude 5 earthquake at Thomson Reservoir in 1996," he said.Terry Ryan from the Bureau of Meteorology says the quake was felt far from its epicentre."Mainly out to the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and places like Pakenham, Wonthaggi, towards Phillip Island ... have reported more sort of movement than the west," he said.Allan Griggs, from the State Emergency Service (SES), says 10 crews were sent to respond to calls for help with minor property damage."There's no reports of injury to the SES, however we have received approximately 30 calls for assistance across the state this evening," he said."Most of the calls have come from the Melbourne metropolitan area ... crews are now out just assessing the damage to these properties."It is reported as minor damage at this stage."Heather McPherson, of Launching Place, was one of the many people who felt the earth move."I nearly fell over," she said."I'm an artist and all my paintings fell off the wall - I had canvasses everywhere."I came out to pick them up and I had this shudder go through the floor."I've never felt anything like it in my life, I could barely stand up."James Sandman, of Drouin in Victoria's east, was watching TV at the time."The whole house absolutely shook, like the foundations shook," he said."The walls moved, they wobbled, and myself and my wife just looked at each other and we ... both then looked at the exits wondering do we need to get out."Greg Cotton was in his apartment in South Yarra at the time."It lasted for what seemed to be about two or three seconds. It was significant," he said."I've never felt the floor move and move me, and I've lived in this particular building for 15 years."Police say no injuries or major damage have been reported so far.