Unusual moderate shallow earthquake close to Melbourne, Australia
Last update: July 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell
Earthquake-Report.com has made a short video based on the text below. Feel free to take a look.
UPDATE 14:20 UTC : Australia is part of the Australian tectonic plate that runs from New Zealand to the Himalayas. There are no important boundaries near the Australian continent, but because the plates are moving continuously, stress can build up in local (sometimes even undetected) fault zones.
UPDATE 14:17 UTC : Seismologists are almost sure that the earthquake today was triggered by the same fault line that generated the March 2009 quakes.
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