Melbourne is currently in its sixth lockdown, experiencing another day of anti-lockdown protests in the CBD, and this morning we had an earthquake. When are the locusts arriving? The 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit in the Victorian alpine town of Mansfield at 9:15am at a depth of 10km and was felt in multiple states. As the shaking started I thought either we were having an earthquake or my apartment building was collapsing. The shaking went on for 10-15 seconds and I knew it was above a 5 on the Richter scale. Thankfully there was minimal damage throughout the state, with the biggest casualty being the brick facade of a building on Chapel Street in Windsor. But earthquakes, let alone this size, aren't meant to happen here. The largest earthquake I've experienced was the 6.9 magnitude 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay Area, but this one was equally unnerving as it wasn't expected.
