Tremors from a magnitude 5.8 earthquake which struck north-east Victoria were felt in parts of the Central West this morning. Cargo resident Kathy Wicks said she was sitting at her table with a bottle of water when she noticed the water began sloshing up the sides of the container and she thought she was about to faint. "It was a bit scary," she admitted. "I grabbed under the table because I thought I was gonna fall off the chair." "It was about 20 past 9 and I reckon it lasted about 15 seconds. It was quite a long time." Mrs Wicks' husband Russell Wicks who was also home at the time, similarly felt the tremors but as he was in a different part of the house with carpeting, the tremors felt "softer" to him. On Old Forbes Road, around six kilometres outside Orange, Camilla Betts-Holliday was working from home when the tremors hit just after 9.15am. "The whole house bloody shook," she laughed. "It was amazing, [I was] just sitting here working, and I didn't know what it was, initially. But, yeah, the whole house shook, and the windows sort of moved in and out... You could definitely feel that there was something going on, for sure." While the whole thing only lasted between five and ten seconds, Ms Betts-Holliday said it was quite intense and she could even hear the roof "cracking". However, her pets didn't seem to notice anything amiss because they slept through it. The earthquake's epicentre was at Gaffneys Creek, near Mansfield, about 190 kilometres' drive north-east of Melbourne at the foothills of Victoria's high country. Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
QUAKE: Camilla Betts-Holliday and her dog, Ernie outside their home. PHOTO: JUDE KEOGH
Tremors from a magnitude 5.8 earthquake which struck north-east Victoria were felt in parts of the Central West this morning.
Cargo resident Kathy Wicks said she was sitting at her table with a bottle of water when she noticed the water began sloshing up the sides of the container and she thought she was about to faint.
"It was a bit scary," she admitted. "I grabbed under the table because I thought I was gonna fall off the chair."
"It was about 20 past 9 and I reckon it lasted about 15 seconds. It was quite a long time."
Mrs Wicks' husband Russell Wicks who was also home at the time, similarly felt the tremors but as he was in a different part of the house with carpeting, the tremors felt "softer" to him.
On Old Forbes Road, around six kilometres outside Orange, Camilla Betts-Holliday was working from home when the tremors hit just after 9.15am.
"It was amazing, [I was] just sitting here working, and I didn't know what it was, initially. But, yeah, the whole house shook, and the windows sort of moved in and out... You could definitely feel that there was something going on, for sure."
While the whole thing only lasted between five and ten seconds, Ms Betts-Holliday said it was quite intense and she could even hear the roof "cracking".
However, her pets didn't seem to notice anything amiss because they slept through it.
The earthquake's epicentre was at Gaffneys Creek, near Mansfield, about 190 kilometres' drive north-east of Melbourne at the foothills of Victoria's high country.
Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
