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Headlines rattle city.

Biggest Earthquake In Three Years Rattles Victoria, gushed The Age earlier this week. (What, all of Victoria?)

Victoria Wakes To 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake, contended the Herald Sun; while News Ltd's leonine-rhyming international arm invoked the beast: Aussie city jolted awake by monster quake.

Most powerful in years (unspecified), gossiped other news outlets. 

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Fact check: annual occurrence of similar-sized global earthquakes/tremors: 500,000.


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