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THE Big Desert National Park has experienced its third earthquake in a week.
The earthquake, within the national park west of Hopetoun, recorded a magnitude of 2.1 on the Richter Scale and occurred at 12.18pm on Sunday.
It comes after a 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded on January 7 in the morning followed by a 2.5 magnitude after shock the same day.
Geoscience Australia duty seismologist Daniel Connolly said given the size of the quake there would not have been any damage.
“The feeling is different for each person depending on where they are position and how perceptive that person is,” he said.
Since 1988 he said the Big Desert National Park has had five earthquakes recorded.
“It is an interesting statistic given that there has been three earthquake in the last month,” he said.
“It has been rare in the area, however, I am not entirely surprised because the chances for an after shock increase after an earthquake.
“The way I would describe it is that the area was having an off day.”
Mr Connolly said there was a known fault line – the Hindmarsh fault line – in the area that caused the quake.
“It is uncommon for earthquakes to happen in the Wimmera, but quakes do not discriminate on boundaries,” he said.
Mr Connolly said if anyone experiences an earthquake to report it at http://www.ga.gov.au/.