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1. Meckering, in the Avon Valley of Western Australia, suffered an earthquake at 10:59am on 14 October 1968. No deaths were reported, but the earthquake injured 17 people, and caused an estimated $2.2 million worth of damage, the equivalent of around $5 million today. 2. In 1961, severe bushfires in several regions of the southwest resulted in extensive loss of property and bushland, but no loss of life. 3. Lake Grace, in Western Australia's eastern wheatbelt, experienced a major hailstorm on 16 October 2005, which razed 500 hectares of grain crops and damaged a further 5,500 hectares. Some farmers reported fields buried in 25 cm of hail. 4. An enormous cyclone (unnamed) hit the northwest coast on 22 April 1887. A pearling fleet bore the brunt of the storm; thirteen vessels were destroyed and 140 people killed. Eighty Mile Beach (some sources say Ninety Mile Beach), near Broome, was littered with bodies and debris washed up from the battered fleet.
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