‘House started shaking’: Aussie mum of five on moment quake rocked small Victorian town

Key points

• A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck near Korumburra, a small farming town in Victoria's Gippsland region, at about 2am earlier this month. Young mother Anakin Martin said the shaking woke her and her son, and she first thought a semi-trailer was passing her home.
• At least five aftershocks have been reported in the area over several days. Geoscience Australia seismologist Tanja Pejic said Gippsland is one of the more active seismic areas in the country.
• She said severe large earthquakes in the region are rare, but cannot be ruled out.