“There’s no cracks or anything in the walls. “Everything shook, the roof shook, boots fell off the shelf and I just ran outside,” she said. Lynne Myers of High County Apparel in Mansfield said “it just scared the hell out of us.” “It was very loud, I thought the building had collapsed, so I came outside and I saw smoke everywhere and luckily no one was under the building,” she said. Kim, who was working in the kitchen at Nguyen’s Hot Bread in Windsor, opposite Betty’s Burger, said it was a scary situation. “We’re out for months, it’s structural, it looks like the top’s come away, we need to get engineers in to assess it and then the works will need to be completed,” restaurant managing director Troy McDonagh said. No one was inside the business at the time. In Melbourne, damage was reported across the suburbs of Prahran, Brunswick, West Melbourne and Albert Park, with the building housing Betty’s Burgers on Chapel Street in Windsor sustaining significant damage.īetty’s Burgers in Melbourne’s Windsor was severely damaged by the earthquake. “There’s no report of building damage in South Australia but it’s also likely there could be further tremors for the remainder of the day.” “I’ve had word from the police commissioner that this is an aftershock from the main quake centred around Mansfield in country Victoria. “We’ve been feeling some of the aftershocks of that here in Adelaide in South Australia this morning,” he said. Premier Steven Marshall said the tremors felt in Adelaide were from the aftershocks of the main quake to hit Mansfield. “Non-teaching staff in these buildings are encouraged to work from home for the rest of the day if they are able to.” “We are working to relocate classes scheduled today in the affected buildings,” the university said in an email.
Photo: Elise Graham/InDailyĪdelaide University evacuated students and staff from its Schultz, Napier, Nexus 19 and North Terrace buildings and said they would remain closed until assessed by engineers. People were evacuated from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital this morning.