Did the tremor rock your world? Tell us about it here and MMS tips, photos and video to MMS 0406 THE AGE (0406 843 243). Age Online readers continue to report aftershocks. "That was a big one," tweeted one person from Rowville. Korumburra Hotel publican Troy Patterson said when the earthquake hit, the pub shook for about eight seconds, accompanied by a loud rumbling. "The whole place literally shook," he said.

"You would think a truck had driven through the pub." Korumburra Tourist Park owner Susan Fuchs said the quake had brought down several trees, but guests had escaped uninjured.



"They didn't hit any cabins or anything, which was lucky," she said.



"It was pretty horrendous, a bit of a shock."



Ms Fuchs said she had not been in Korumburra during previous earthquakes.



"One of the guests said they had had worse before," she said. Noelle Walker, a volunteer at Korumburra tourism attraction Coal Creek Community Park, said the two-to-three second shudder forced them to rush about 12 people out of the foyer. That's fairly large for an earthquake in south-east Australia. "There was no damage. It just gave a jolly good shake," she said.

Dr Ian Cartwright from Monash University's school of geosciences told 3AW it was unlikely widespread damage would be caused by the earthquake.



"That's fairly large for an earthquake in south-east Australia, which is why we felt it over quite a wide area," Dr Cartwright said.



"It's very unlikely there will be damage from an earthquake like that.



"You may get the odd crack in the wall, but I'd doubt it would be anything worse than that." Korumburra, at the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges in Gippsland, has a history of quakes and is known as the centre of Victoria's seismic activity.



In late March and April, two small earthquakes, registering 2.4, were felt there and Korumburra was hit by two quakes in 2009 that registered 4.6, and resulted in hundreds of aftershocks. The State Emergency Service has received no reports of damage near the epicentre or elsewhere, spokesman Lachlan Quick said.



He said anyone with "significant damage" should telephone 132 500 but asked people not to call simply to report feeling the quake. The CFA has also not received any reports of damage. Charles Envall in Korumburra said there was a "very sharp" jolt, which shook the floors and windows violently for about five seconds.

Warragul resident Sandra Evans also said her house shook and windows rattled for about five seconds, and at first she thought a tree had blown down on the house. "I thought it was the wind, but all the windows were rattling at the same time," she said. She said the quake was strong enough to move open doors in the house. Ms Evans said several other west Gippsland residents had posted on Facebook that they had also felt the earth tremor. Residents across Melbourne's south-east and closer to Gippsland reported doors and windows rattling, computer screens shaking and floors bouncing.

In Inverloch, about 28 kilometres from Korumburra, Mervyn Finger was on the phone to his daughter when he heard a rumbling sound. "The whole house shook with the added sensation of 'moving' on its foundations as though a truck had hit it," he said. Lilydale resident Jo Birtus felt shaking just after 11.30am. "[It] felt like an unbalanced washing machine shaking the house for a few seconds, the shower screen doors were rattling and the electricity was interrupted on and off for a couple of minutes," she said. Drouin resident Sarah Palmer said "everything was rattling" for about 15 seconds, while Thomas Jenkins was having a shower in North Melbourne when the quake sent his soap flying.

Kaylene Whittingham said a crack in the roof of her Preston office just got bigger, and in Pakenham, Peter Tait said it sounded like a large truck driving up his street. "Then the rumble and the shake, tiles and windows rattling and light bouncing in the chair," he said. Loading A 6.5 earthquake has also been felt across New Zealand’s lower North Island. - with AAP