Residents in regional Victoria have been hit with two minor earthquakes on Saturday morning.
Locals near Lake Eildon may have woken to the 2.6 magnitude tremor that first hit the area at about 3.50am.
A second 2.9 magnitude shock was recorded at about 4.15am.
More than a dozen people have so far reported feeling the earthquake to Geoscience Australia.
Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates under the earth’s surface move into one another.
The sudden release of stress that slowly builds up from that movement causes the tremors.
According to Geoscience Australia, Australia is one of the safest places to live in relation to earthquakes because it is away from tectonic plate boundaries where large earthquakes occur more frequently.
Lake Eildon is about 235km northeast of Melbourne.
It was only six days ago that a 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit Adelaide with many residents waking up last Sunday morning feeling their walls shake.
The tremor hit at about 7.20am in Mount Barker, 33km southeast of the capital city, but was reportedly felt up to 100km away from the centre.
