Australia wasn’t so lucky. Thirteen people were killed and more than 160 injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook Newcastle, NSW. More than 35,000 homes, 147 schools and 3000 other buildings ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A powerful deep-sea earthquake damaged village buildings ... and its substantial shaking was widely felt in northern Australia. Two school buildings and 15 houses were ...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck the New South Wales Hunter Valley early on Wednesday morning, jolting awake residents across a wide swathe of eastern Australia, including parts of Sydney and ...

Indonesia's national disaster agency says the land-based earthquake didn't have any potential ... has been felt across large parts of Western Australia. The quake struck about over 100 miles ...

Melbourne was hit by a magnitude 3.8 earthquake on Sunday night. Geoscience Australia said shaking was reported as far north as Bendigo and as far south as Hobart. Earthquakes have hit Australia ...

Nearly half of all infrastructure in Australia’s most ... authorities by the Australian Earthquake Engineers Society (formed after the Newcastle disaster), have failed to make it into official ...

Earthquakes are not as common in Australia though the continent does experience seismic activity due to tectonic plate movement. In 2021, Victoria experienced a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Australia on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 2:55 a.m. Australian Eastern time about 19 ...

in losses was the second most-expensive disaster, followed by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan’s Fukushima prefecture in March. The February and March floods across Australia’s ...

But natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanoes ... which was ready to respond instantly when Covid emerged; and Australia, sensitized by long experience of droughts, fires and floods.