4/8/2023 0 Comments Parkdale earthquakeNo one got hurt, so that’s the main thing. McDonagh said that fortunately no staff members were on site at the time of the damage, and the resident of an apartment above the restaurant was able to safely evacuate. Guardian Australia spoke to him outside the building. Tim McDonagh, the managing director of Betty’s Burgers, said seeing the damage was surreal and that it was a “catastrophe” in already unusual circumstances. The Melbourne building that has featured on all the footage of earthquake damage this morning is Betty’s Burgers & Concrete Co, an American-style burger shop on Chapel Street. Thanks for your company, stay safe, and beware of any aftershocks. We will continue to bring you any major developments as they happen over at the Australia news live blog. Locals said it felt like ‘a big truck coming through the building’. Mansfield Shire Council has not reported any significant damage at this stage.The wall of a building on Chapel Street, Windsor, collapsed, and there were reports of damage to brickwork and cracked pavement across the city. There have been 46 reports of building damage, mainly in Melbourne and Mansfield.It is the strongest earthquake reported in Victoria, and possibly the strongest experienced in the state in up to 200 years.Tremors were felt as far afield as Sydney, Dubbo, and Launceston - all about 700km away. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake was recorded just outside of Woods Point, near Mansfield, at 9.15am.We are going to close this blog here, but you can continue to follow any new developments on the earthquake via our Australian news liveblog, here. Well, that was an exciting and slightly scary morning.
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