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1.05am BST

Here is the quake, as experienced from the ABC Melbourne studio.

A magnitude six #Earthquake has rattled Melbourne and regional Victoria.
This is the moment when News Breakfast presenters @mjrowland68 and @Tonaaayy_ were rocked by it. pic.twitter.com/Z4gz0sWJve

1.02am BST

The mayor of Manfield, Mark Holcombe, is speaking with ABC now.

The regional town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps was the epicentre of the shallow, earthquake.

It came right out of left field. We don’t have earthquakes, that I am aware of, none of the locals I spoke to this morning had that experience with earthquakes here before, so it is one right out of left field. It was just a really big crumble…

It was really strong. I was sitting down at work at my desk and I needed to run outside, it took me a while to work out what it was.

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source: theguardian.com