A pregnant Irish woman in Melbourne describes her house as "bouncing" during the magnitude 6 earthquake in the city in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The quake hit 80 miles northeast of Australia's second-most populous city near the town of Mansfield at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), the government agency said. The earthquake was the largest to rattle Australia since a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck 130 miles off the northwest coastal town of Broome in 2019. Due her first baby in three weeks Aoife Tierney was sitting on the ground filling her washing machine when the earthquake hit. Another Irish expat in Melbourne, Daniel O'Halloran from Co Clare and who also works in a factory, told the Irish Examiner how he and his colleagues thought a truck had crashed into their building.

Source: Irish Examiner September 22, 2021 14:37 UTC