A powerful earthquake has rocked Victoria.
The 4.1 magnitude tremor hit near Woods Point, in the Victoria’s High Country, about 180km northeast of Melbourne and 78km north of Moe, at 3.48am on Wednesday.
GeoScience Australia recorded more than 1,500 people ‘felt reports’ of the tremor, with no reports of damage to any buildings or infrastructure.
VicEmergency shared a message with residents just before 5am warning the earthquake may have caused minor damage.
‘This earthquake has been felt in Wangaratta, Benalla, South Morang, Healesville, Yarra Junction and Dargo,’ VicEmergency wrote.
Experts explained the quake was about 8km deep, which is not likely to cause damage.
A low-level warning was issued for a large part of the state, stretching from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne to Falls Creek in the east, Shepparton and Wangaratta in the north and Latrobe Valley in the south.
The earthquake was the largest to hit the region since June, last year, according to the Seismology Research Centre.
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Woods Point, in the Victoria’s High Country at 3.48am on Wednesday
The tremor was felt in Wangaratta, Benalla, South Morang, Healesville, Yarra Junction and Dargo, with more than 1,400 people reporting the quake
Some Victorians claimed the earthquake ‘woke me up’, with others in the surrounding areas sharing that they too felt the shake.
‘Rattled my windows in Heathmont,’ one person wrote on social media.
‘Felt in Lakes Entrance,’ a second commented.
‘Yep! felt in Danger Ranges… just a light shaking for about 15 seconds,’ a third chimed to which another person replied: ‘Woah, that far out?!’.
The earthquake was the largest to hit the area since a June, last year, which saw a magnitude 4.7 recorded in Victoria’s alphine region, according to Seismology Research Centre.
The region also saw earthquake activity in September 2021 after recording a magnitude 5.9 tremor.
Seismologist Adam Pascale told Sunrise on Wednesday the tremor was a part of seismic activity following the September 2021 earthquake.
‘We’ve been getting after shocks in this area since 2021, this is the third-largest of the after shocks,’ Mr Pascale said.
‘People who live in that area probably are feeling them a bit more often than most people in Melbourne.
‘Once you get to magnitude 4, that’s when people this far away can feel it.’
The Bureau of Meteorology said there was ‘no tsunami threat to Australia’ following the earthquake in Woods Point.
Seismology Research Centre said the earthquake was the largest to hit the region since June 2023 (pictured)
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