Residents in Victoria's south-east awoke to a rumble on Wednesday morning as a 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook towns around Morwell.
The epicentre of the quake was at Turtons Creek, about 180km east of Melbourne, but the tremors were felt up to 50 kilometres away, according to Geoscience Australia.
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The earthquake hit around 6:40 on Wednesday morning near Foster in south-east Victoria. (Video courtesy: Seven News Melbourne)
It happened at 6.40am at a depth of about 6 kilometres, a Geoscience spokeswoman said.
Alan told radio station 3AW the shaking woke him on Wednesday morning.
"At 6.40 this morning the house shook and rumbled and woke both my wife and I up. We live just at Jeeralang Junction, which is next to the Morwell National Park," he said.
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Another man, Paul, said he heard the wardrobe rattle. "Yeah, it was a nice wake up call" he said.
Anne said her sister-in-law was still recovering from the tremor.
"My sister-in-law felt it really bad in Mirboo North. It was like a truck going past. She is still shaking," she said.
Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Hugh Glanville said in the past year there had been nine earthquakes in the Gippsland area.
He said Wednesday's quake was the largest.
"It's quite widely felt but it's very unlikely to have been damaging," Mr Glanville said.
"It was felt just outside 50km away, we had reports in Warragul and down to Wilsons Promontory, so quite an extensive felt area.
"And everyone is saying, if they were close, they described it as a bang or a rattling.
"Unless someone's house is right on top of the epicentre, you don't expect damage, the earthquake would need to get a bit larger than this."
Mr Glanville said it was not unusual for earthquakes to occur in the Gippsland region.
A spokesman for Hazelwood Mine, which is about 30 kilometres from the epicentre, said the shake did not affect the mine.
There were no calls to State Emergency Service following the tremors, a spokeswoman said.
Mag 3.4 Morwell, Gippsland, VIC.1 Feb 2017 6:40 (AEDT) Lat/Long 38.42S 146.25E. Depth 6km. Info is prelim.https://t.co/KaimkhmIR3
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