Residents in Victoria's south-east awoke to a rumble on Wednesday morning as a 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook towns around Morwell.

The epicentre of the quake was at Turtons Creek, about 180km east of Melbourne, but the tremors were felt up to 50 kilometres away, according to Geoscience Australia.

It happened at 6.40am at a depth of about 6 kilometres, a Geoscience spokeswoman said.

Alan told radio station 3AW the shaking woke him on Wednesday morning.



"At 6.40 this morning the house shook and rumbled and woke both my wife and I up. We live just at Jeeralang Junction, which is next to the Morwell National Park," he said.