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The community were disappointed as they had to pay for the damage so they couldn't control a natural disaster like an earthquake.
The epicenter of the Newcastle earthquake of 1989 was in Boolaroo which is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Boolaroo is 12 miles west of the Newcastle business district.
The Newcastle earthquake was a Richter scale of 5.6 magnitude earthquake
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the newcastle earth quake wiped out thousands of lives
No, but there has been an Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 north of Sydney in Newcastle.
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Yes, but only one.
A distance of some 21 miles [13 kilometers] separates where the earthquake of December 27, 1989 was felt in Newcastle to its suburb of Boolaroo, below which was the earthquake's epicenter.
economic impacts were $5.2 billion
Newcastle was the city affected by an earthquake in 1989. The epicentre for the earthquake, which killed 13 people, was at Boolaroo, a Newcastle suburb 19 kilometres west of the CBD.Effects of the Newcastle earthquake were felt throughout central-eastern New South Wales. There were reports of damage to buildings in Scone, Gladstone and Sydney, the latter some 800km away.
Thirteen people died during this earthquake and around 160 were injured.