Pyramid Hill was rocked by two earthquakes on Monday night, at 11.48pm, and 4.01am, and the town could receive a few more tremors in the next few days.
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The first earthquake at 11.48pm was 3.3 in magniture and took place at a depth of 10 kilometres.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the town was shaken by a second earthquake of a lower magnitude.
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Pyramid Hill News and Post employee Kelly Stewart felt the first quake at her home on Monday night.
It was the strongest earthquake she had felt in her time in the town.
“It felt like thunder, but you could tell it was underground,” Ms Stewart said.
“You could here it was just rumbling like a thunder sound, and all of a sudden there was just like a sudden explosion, like a big bang sound.
“You could tell what it was, the house shook.”
Senior Seismologist at Geoscience Australia Hugh Glanville said quakes like Pyramid Hill’s are not uncommon for the region.
That part of Victoria has experienced seven such quakes in the past 10 years, Mr Glanville said.
The tremors are a release of stress on the Australian tectonic plate.
Given there has already been one aftershock, the area could experience a few more in the next few days.
There is a low chance that the shocks could be building up to a larger earthquake, but it is very unlikely, Mr Glanville said.
The earthquakes were both classified as ‘small’ by the organisation’s measure.
The second tremor took place at 4am, measuring 2.3 in magnitude at a depth of six kilometres.
“We had felt reports come in describing a low rumble and then a shaking of the house and rattling of the house, which is quite common for an earthquake of that size,” Mr Glanville said.
“We wouldn’t expect any damage or injury from earthquakes of this size.”
The epicentre of both tremors was slightly to the east of Pyramid Hill itself.
Geoscience Australia estimates the earthquakes could have been felt by people within 30km.