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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.
The earthquake that struck Newcastle, Australia on 28 December 1989 caused significant damage throughout the city. 35,000 homes, 147 schools and 3,000 other structures in the region collapsed. The most damage happened at the Newcastle Workers Club when walls and multiple floors collapsed, dropping 300 tonnes of concrete onto the ground-floor car park, killing 9 people.
Thirteen people died during this earthquake and around 160 were injured.
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34 people were killed in all.
There was about 2000 people killed because of the Tsunami and earthquake
it was 140,000 people killed
There is an estimation of 830,000 people killed.
230,000 died as a result of the earthquake.
The 1958 earthquake in Montana killed 28 people. No one died in the 2005 earthquake.
Nine were killed by the earthquake and and at least another 120 by the Tsunami that it created.