Some minor building damage was reported in the Latrobe Valley close to the epicentre, and in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Called TRUenergy, the company was formed in 1995 from the combination of retail and generation assets purchased from Singapore Power (who in turn purchased them from TXU Corp), and CLP's own Yallourn Power Station, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
The Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria, Australia contains estimated reserves of some 65 billion tonnes of brown coal.
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It is often burned in power stations constructed very close to any mines, such as in Australia's Latrobe Valley and Luminant's Monticello plant in Texas.
Victoria has large reserves of brown coal located in the Latrobe Valley, to the east of Melbourne.
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The LGA has three cities—Moe, Morwell and Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley—which form the same statistical area (or Tri-city) and accounts for most of the City's population and as such, the LGA is primarily an urban area with many of the smaller settlements forming suburban areas separated by areas of secondary industry, although there are large tracts of crown and rural land to the north and south.
Both national public broadcasters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation including channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and Special Broadcasting Service including SBS One and SBS Two, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.