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Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...
With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be ...
Strong aftershocks are still possible in the wake of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Queensland at the weekend.
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southern Queensland on Saturday morning, with residents reporting that their houses shook.
Queenslanders are being warned to brace for aftershocks after millions were rocked by the largest onshore earthquake in 50 ...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near Kilkivan in regional Queensland, sending tremors through homes from Rockhampton in ...
There was no threat of tsunami to Queensland, Australia's weather forecaster said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...
Earthquakes are primarily caused by movements in the Earth's crust, generating sound waves that propagate through the Earth. According to Derrick Hasterok, a lecturer in earth sciences at the ...
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Queensland, Australia, on August 16, 2025, at a shallow depth of 10 km, according to ...
Queensland records hundreds of earthquakes each year but disaster authorities believe the state is at greater risk of being ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck near the east coast of Australia on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
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 ...