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Quake that struck Sunbury on Sunday night the strongest in more than 100 years with an epicentre in metropolitan Melbourne

A magnitude-3.8 earthquake in the Melbourne suburb of Sunbury strikes at a depth of 3 kilometres on Sunday night, according to Geoscience Australia, with a leading seismologist saying it could be the city's largest in 100 years.

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Scores of residents in Boort, population 940, reported feeling the impact of the 3.4-magnitude quake early this morning.

RESIDENTS in Gresford felt the earth move overnight with a magnitude 3.2 earthquake recorded just after 10pm Sunday.

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Great Southern residents awoke today to "unreal" shaking that sounded "like heavy trucks" as the 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck.

Residents in Australia's north woke to shaking homes and cars early on Tuesday morning, when a massive earthquake struck under the Banda Sea. Here's what you should do in an earthquake, and why the Top End region is prone to them.

Early risers in parts of the Adelaide Hills were shaken from their slumber by a small tremor before sunrise, with one resident saying his "cat was running around scared and went and hid".

A magnitude-4.3 earthquake close to Derby shook the Kimberley town on Monday evening with reports of homes shaking followed by a "noise like thunder".

Scientists collect data to determine the cause of ongoing seismic activity in the Wheatbelt. It comes following a cluster of at least 13 earthquakes in the Mukinbudin area last week.