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Quake reactions

Melburnians are reporting being woken up by the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Leongatha at 12.49am. The epicentre was 8km deep.

Thought it was my cat trying to beat it down as she always does when wanting to come in to sleep. But nope, she was asleep in the lounge.