A Brief History of Earthquakes Around Australia

[@FionaEm]

Didn't realise that earthquake waves travel further in Australia than in places where the earth's crust experiences more disturbance. Interesting 😊

[@rosa9079]

Thoroughly enjoying your videos and learning so much I never knew about.

[@DumbSkippy]

Thank you for including W.A.

[@createdforthemoment6740]

I remember the Beaconsfield mine disaster and rescue, nationwide news for weeks. Didn't realise it was from an earthquake.

[@Moonlight0551]

Great video. I have a Raspberry Shake seismometer sitting on a slab in a garden shed in my yard in Sydney N.S.W. and use the Geoscience email alerts to check it for activity. I have recorded some of the Southern Highland and Hunter Valley quakes in recent years as well as the larger ones around the Pacific rim and Indonesia and PNG. It's a great citizen science activity.

[@MrWombatty]

Just discovered this great YT channel, & really found this information interesting, but it does show how much there's always a struggle to obtain scientific funding for research & monitoring here in Australia! I always keep a tab open on the USGS earthquake webpage, plus the Earthquakes@GA website is bookmarked!

[@petraperez1075]

Thanks for sharing, just found your channel and love it!

[@stormpaterson334]

Same here. Very important information indeed.

[@jasonfraser701]

I'm on board, hopefully you become our favourite geological educator as I think my girl is enjoying Nik Zentner a little too much. May all your vids be as good as this one.

[@kylejackson1392]

I found this video very interesting. I didn't know that Australia has had so many Earthquakes over the years.I was living in Mackay when the earthquake hit Bowen. It sounded like a truck dropped it's trailer on the road & skidding a long ,rocked the house & lost a few windows & we were 2 hrs down the road from Bowen.

[@MrWombatty]

Either yesterday 27/7 or Friday 26/7 at 6:30am I heard what sounded like thunder where I live just north of Mittagong in NSW's Southern Highlands, but even though it was raining, I thought it was a bit odd to hear it just the once. Later in the day someone said that there had been an earth-tremor but I was certain I hadn't felt anything! What was also puzzling, was the fact that the Earthquakes@GA website listed no quakes/tremors despite quite a few reports from residents of the Mittagong/Bowral/Moss Vale feeling something (plus one report from Lake Illawarra?) which was a bit odd. After thinking about it for a while it did dawn on me that maybe it was really an aircraft from the Australian air-force or navy which had produced a sonic-boom while on manoeuvrers!?!

[@earthlymatters888]

my friend in bowral reported this to me aswell. said there was also a bright flash in the sky. they thought it was a meteor.

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Very interesting.

[@mitchmilner5291]

Excellent presentation. I was near the 6.1 event. South west Northern Territory. 2016. Always wondered the Magnitude.

[@emmacooper1524]

Fascinating. I was at a playground with my daughter in 2017 in Townsville. I remember that one.

[@robynboz8477]

Fascinating!

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice information. Thank you

[@lynnoneill4294]

I really enjoyed this video. 🙂

[@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874]

Thank you, this was very enlightening. Please continue to educate us about our continent's seismology.

[@redhammer9910]

I remember the Meckering quake. I was 10 standing next to my mum in the Bunbury railway station some 250 km away. Such a strange feeling but as a kid more bemused watching people and things fall down and over. But considering the number of earth quakes around the world every day I think perhaps Australia's very small number might render our big rock pretty stable.

[@ohasis8331]

Instrumentation has certainly put paid to the myth that Australia doesn't have earthquakes. Thanks for the video.

[@MrKaypet]

Brigitte L Jones. Glad you are providing this information especially living in Vic AU. I used to get information the most recent earthquakes from I think a US site that doesn't exist or cover AU quakes. Haven't found recent sites covering fault lines and other quake causes for AU. Your site looks promising. Though I'd like to suggest you slow down and take more time to cover in a bit more depth these quake causes as it would be appreciated.

[@bossdog1480]

I was in Perth during the 1968 Meckering earthquake. Our concrete back verandah was dancing around like jelly. Mum grabbed my brother and I by the hands and dragged us out into the backyard, just in time to see the top part of the East Maylands brickworks collapse inwards. I was like, "YES, do it again!" I was 9 at the time. We travelled up to Meckering to have a look and my parents had photos of me standing in one of the cracks. 😁😁

[@bossdog1480]

PS. I mentioned this to my Chilean girlfriend in later years and she reckons I'm crazy because; "I don't know what a REAL earthquake is like." I think she has a point. 😊😊

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

Australia is so isolated and self. Sufficieit's also a very rich country so. If they ever do have a natural disaster, they can kinda just help themselves. I didn't even know they had Earthquakes in Australia. I thought that was the one place on earth where people were safe from any kind of natural disaster except fire and politics.

[@barnowl.]

What about the fault line in the Strzelecki Ranges in Victoria?

[@suechandler8162]

My Son and his Wife left Newcastle to holiday with us in Jindabine. That evening we watched the earthquake on TV. SO lucky to not be there.

[@stormpaterson334]

I often wonder whats happening in Antarctica as well.

[@linsfruit5240]

Wow ! I had no idea we had so many quakes

[@basiloloughlin6105]

I was standing outside the corrigin hotel with a few mates when the earth quake hit Meckering, the front of the hotel started rocking and swaying the bar maid came running out screaming, heard all the bottles on the selves in the pub falling and crashing onto the floor. ( at the time though i might of had one to many "is that me swaying or the building".😮😂

[@rob3942]

Great rundown. Thank you. Look forward to more (information, not earthquakes)

[@bradweir]

I'm from Newcastle, that was big bump. It was bigger than 5.6 . Around 5.9 from memory.

[@merlingeikie]

Thank you❤🎉

[@aaajp3]

Good vid - but why exactly do we get Earthquakes - what causes them here.?? John Sydney

[@aussietracey1]

has cairns qld ever had any ?

[@Nathan-vq9ch]

earthquakes requires time , why when it just can happen like that .gotta like the blue planet 💙

[@carrier411]

well Australia should NEVER go ahead with nuclear power generation then, look at Japan for another obvious example of why earthquake-prone countries should never have nuclear power.

[@gandjconway30]

No earthquake ever recorded on mainland Australia would damage a nuclear reactor with current design parameters.

[@franktully3065]

​@@gandjconway30exactly!

[@carrier411]

@@gandjconway30 i hope not