A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Latrobe Valley in Victoria's south-east on Friday night, according to GeoScience Australia.

The quake happened about 7:15pm (AEDT) about six kilometres south of Moe.

Emergency services have not received any reports of injury or damage, which experts said they expected.

"These sorts of quakes are pretty sharp, short jolts," Dan Jacksa from GeoScience Australia said.

"We've got over 40 fault reports from the region and the descriptions are like that. Just a bit of a short vibration."

He said there was a high level of activity in the Gippsland region.

"There's been many earthquakes over the years, and that's why we call it the south-east seismic zone of Australia.

"It's due to the tectonic forces coming from the Pacific plate hitting the side of the Australian plate, with the boundary where New Zealand is.

"This is one of the weak points. The crust through Victoria is quite thin, so we get some activity."