Wed 22 Sep 2021 Wednesday 22 September 2021 Wed 22 Sep 2021 at 1:44am Our neighbours in New Zealand may get more frequent earthquakes, but that doesn't mean there's no risk in Australia ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia. The quake hit about 80 miles northeast ...

A town in Victoria’s central east has woken to a mammoth 3.1 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning. The 3.1 magnitude ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck near Melbourne in southern Australia on Wednesday, according to Geoscience Australia. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, the Victorian State Emergency Service ...

Earthquakes have hit Australia more frequently in recent years, but this rise is still within long-term patterns. ... In 2021, Victoria was hit by quakes measuring 5.8 and 4.8 in magnitude, ...

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake, which was felt across five Australian states and territories, was caused by a previously unknown fault line deep within the Earth's crust, according to new research.

A powerful earthquake has struck Western Australia's central Wheatbelt overnight. The 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit near the rural town of Wyalkatchem, about 192km east of Perth, at a depth of 6km ...

Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century – swaying buildings but ultimately causing very little damage.

In a 2021 joint paper, Professor Quigley noted many of Australia’s largest cities were in areas of neotectonic faulting. Canberra is considered the highest earthquake hazard risk of the capital ...

The epicenter of the magnitude 7.6 temblor was in the Banda Sea, nearest the Tanimbar islands in Maluku province that have about 127,000 residents, according to 2021 data.

“In terms of energy, the magnitude 7.8 that occurred is 708 times stronger than a magnitude 5.9,” he said, citing as an example an earthquake in Melbourne, Australia, in 2021, in which some ...