{"id":913831,"date":"2026-10-02T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:06:11","slug":"magnitude-4-8-earthquake-strikes-near-leongatha-south-east-of-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913831\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-4.8 earthquake strikes near Leongatha, south-east of Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 4.8-magnitude earthquake has been recorded near the Victorian town of Leongatha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Geoscience Australia said the quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres just after 2am, and the epicentre was near the South Gippsland town, which is about 135km south-east of Melbourne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The federal agency&#8217;s websites cited almost 15,000 felt reports in the area by 3am. There have been no reports of injuries or damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Hadi Ghasemi, a geophysicist with Geoscience Australia, told the ABC it was one of the strongest tremors the region had experienced in the last two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shaking was widely felt, close to the epicentre. It was a strong shake but I don&#8217;t expect any major damage,&#8221;  he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Geoscience Australia also confirmed that a 3.1-magnitude aftershock struck, also near Leongatha, just before 3am.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4.8-magnitude earthquake has been recorded near the Victorian town of Leongatha. Geoscience Australia said the quake hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,9989,37355,647,44,208728],"class_list":["post-913831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-earthquake","tag-leongatha","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-south-gippsland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}