Australians have taken to social media to report they felt a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, revised down from 6.0 initially reported, that struck in regional Victoria at around 9.15 a.m. on Wednesday morning local time. Houses and apartments shook with videos and photos emerging on social media showing buildings damaged in the state’s capital, Melbourne. One video showed the brick facade and part of the roof of a building that housed Betty’s Burgers had crumbled onto Chapel Street in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor, while another showed a live news broadcast from a studio being disrupted by the tremors. No one was inside Betty’s Burgers but a tenant was upstairs in the same building when the earthquake hit, restaurant managing director Troy McDonagh told AAP. “We’re out for months, it’s structural, it looks like the top’s come away, we need to get engineers in to assess it and then the works will need to be …
Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Australia’s Victoria, Tremors Felt Widely
September 21, 2021
admin
0 Comment