Australia does not have many major earthquakes, but it has dozen of minor earthquakes every year which are not felt by the average person because they occur so far underground.
Times and places where significant earthquakes have occurred in Australia are few, but they include:
The most devastating earthquake in Australia was the one that hit Newcastle on 28 December 1989. The earthquake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale, and its effects were felt throughout central-eastern New South Wales. There were reports of damage to buildings in Scone, Gladstone and Sydney, which is 800km away. The shaking was even felt in tall buildings, in places over 5000km away.
Thirteen people were killed, and 35,000 homes, 147 schools and 3,000 other structures in the region collapsed. Most of the damage and deaths happened when the walls and floors of the Newcastle Workers Club collapsed. Originally, a US report on the earthquake suggested that the disaster was caused by stress resulting from 200 years of underground coal mining. Australian geoscientists disagreed with this claim, claiming that the Hunter Valley has been prone to minor earthquakes for years. Other evidence suggested that the hypocentre of the earthquake lay too deep underground - 12 kilometres - for it to have been caused by mining.
Australia's greatest magnitude earthquake to have occurred onshore was on 29 April 1941, when a 7.2 earthquake hit Meeberrie, a tiny township in the central west of Western Australia. No one was killed due to the town's isolation and minimal buildings, but the quake was recorded by seismographs as far away as Sydney, on the other side of the continent.
Australia does not have many major earthquakes, but it has dozen of minor earthquakes every year which are not felt by the average person because they occur so far underground.
Times and places where significant earthquakes have occurred in Australia are few, but they include:
The earthquake in Southern Ocean North of Macquire Island in 2004 is the biggest earthquake reported in Australia, with a magnitude of 8.1.
The "worst" earthquake in modern history occurred on May 22, 1960, in Valdivia, Chile. It measured 9.5 on the Richter scale, the largest recorded earthquake in history.
The worst earthquake was the one in Chile
Easily the world's worst Earthquake.
The worst earthquake possible is 11.0 although the worst earthquake in recorded history is only 9.5, which struck in Chile, on the 22 May 1960.
A lot
It was a 9.3 magnitude earthquake. It was the 2nd worst earthquake that have ever recorded.
Yes, a squirrel is larger than a T-Rex during the event of an earthquake, what a wonderful fish.
the worst earthquake in history is the hediezz earthquake
Easily the world's worst Earthquake.
The worst earthquake possible is 11.0 although the worst earthquake in recorded history is only 9.5, which struck in Chile, on the 22 May 1960.
The worst earthquake possible is 11.0 although the worst earthquake in recorded history is only 9.5, which struck in Chile, on the 22 May 1960.
An earthquake and the tsunami. It was the 5th worst earthquake in the world. The worst disaster for Japan.
shaanix, china was the worst earthquake ever recorded
8.0
1906
No, but it is the worst in Japan this century. The last big earthquake of this magnitude was in the early 1900's.
The worst in term of casualties was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake where it is estimated that more than 3,000 people were killed. The worst in terms of magnitude was the 1964 Alaskan earthquake which had a magnitude of 9.2 making it the 3rd largest earthquake ever recorded by man.
cyclones are the most worst natural disaster
yes it was