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Australia Covid updates live: 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Melbourne; city braces for third day of protests; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths 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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What I love more about this tweet is the homemade “9 News” watermark on Instagram. Speaking of Covid-19 news across Australia, Queensland has recorded one new local Covid-19 case, luckily in home quarantine.
WOW! Daniel Andrews really did mean “any tactics necessary”. OK, with all this earthquake talk, that amazing Calla Wahlquist is manning a dedicated tremor blog.
Here is some more footage that friends sent me from Chapel Street. I’ll bring you more as soon as I can. From here on out this live blog will focus more on the protests and Covid-19 news across Australia.
Here is more footage from building damage in Chapel Street in South Yarra, Melbourne, which is one of the busiest shopping strips in the city. Check out the all the quake news below:
My heart is still in my throat after that! Not the best time to be on the top floor of a very old building! 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.