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Australia Covid updates live: early arrests as Melbourne braces for third day of protests; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths | |
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Speaking of Covid-19 news across Australia, Queensland has recorded one new local Covid-19 case, luckily in home quarantine. | |
OK, with all this earthquake talk, that amazing Calla Wahlquist is manning a dedicated tremor blog. | |
From here on out this live blog will focus more on the protests and Covid-19 news across Australia. | |
Check out the all the quake news below: | |
Here is all the info on that potential second tremor. | |
Some people have been saying that the earthquake has now been revised down to 4.0. Although the official Geoscience Australia page still lists it as 5.8. | |
I did feel a second tremor about 10 minutes afterwards, so perhaps that is the smaller shake. | |
I will confirm for you as soon as I can. | |
OK, now time to go find where my terrified cat is hiding. | |
Here is the quake, as experienced from the ABC Melbourne studio. | |
The mayor of Manfield, Mark Holcombe, is speaking with ABC now. | |
The regional town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps was the epicentre of the shallow earthquake. | |
You heard it here first folks! The Victorian premier has confirmed the earthquake. | |
Oh, the protests are still going on by the way, with several people already being held by police. | |
Fire and rescues have been dispatched across Alexandria, Manly and Hornsby in Sydney, and as far as Dubbo after reports of tremors. |