A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has rocked parts of regional Victoria.
The 3.0 magnitude quake was recorded in the Lerderderg State Park, northwest of Melbourne, at a depth of 7km at about 10.45am local time on Saturday.
A magnitude 1.6 aftershock followed the initial earthquake.
Up to 88 people submitted felt reports to Geoscience Australia with the majority coming from Ballarat followed by residents in Geelong and Frankston.
The epicentre was recorded near Woodend, about 70km northwest from Melbourne.
The Victorian SES said it was not anticipating any damage.
It comes just days after a magnitude 4.0 earthquake was detected off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday morning.
The quake was detected 260km from Albany on WA’s south coast at a depth of 10km.
Up to 88 people have reported feeling the initial quake to Geoscience Australia (pictured)
On Tuesday, thousands of residents were left without power after a magnitude 4.1 earthquake rocked regional NSW.
The event was recorded 7km from Denman in the Upper Hunter Region, 250km north of Sydney, at a depth of 10km at 12.15pm on Tuesday.
Over 300 people reported feeling the earthquake in the Hunter Valley, Central Coast, Scone and Penrith in western Sydney, according to Geoscience Australia.
Experts warned the NSW quake was part of a ‘swarm sequence’ that would see more seismic activity in the area over the coming months.
Residents in the NSW mining town of Muswellbrook were told to expect ‘hundreds to thousands’ of aftershocks in the wake of four quakes in three months.
‘In earthquake swarms, you have a series of the earthquakes with similar size magnitudes – it’s not like an aftershock sequence,’ senior seismologist Dr Hadi Ghasemi from GeoScience Australia told the ABC.
The 3.0 magnitude quake was recorded in the Lerderderg State Park, northwest of Melbourne, at a depth of 7km at about 10.45am on Saturday (pictured)
‘In this region, since the magnitude-4.7 in August, we’ve recorded over 50 earthquakes, four of them with magnitudes larger than 4, including the recent one.’
Dr Ghasemi warned residents of the possibility of further tremors being felt.
‘All of the previous magnitude-4 ones in this region, they were followed by smaller aftershocks,’ he said.
‘But then again, with the swarm activity this kind of activity may continue for months or even years to come.’
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