List of Earthquakes
| Location | Date | Magnitude | Effects & Damage | Notes & references |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle, New South Wales | 01842-10-2828 October 1842 | Unknown | Caused alarm in Newcastle. | |
| Newcastle, New South Wales | 01868-06-1818 June 1868 | Unknown | Damage in Hunter Street and the Newcastle suburbs of The Hill and Wallsend (then known as Pitt Town). Australias most fatal earthquake | |
| Gayndah, Queensland | 01883-08-2828 August 1883 | 5.9 | Caused major damage in the Gayndah region. | |
| Tasman Sea, Tasmania and Victoria | 01884-07-1313 July 1884 | 6.4 | Offshore quake | Felt in Tasmania and in eastern Victoria |
| Tasman Sea, Tasmania and Victoria | 01885-05-1212 May 1885 | 6.8 | Offshore quake | Felt in Tasmania and in eastern Victoria |
| Yass, New South Wales/ACT | 01886-11-1515 November 1886 | 5.5 (estimated) | Damage caused in Yass, felt strongly in Queanbeyan. | |
| Tasman Sea, Tasmania and Victoria | 01892-01-2626 January 1892 | 6.9 | Offshore earthquake, felt in Launceston. This was the strongest quake in a sequence of hundreds in the Tasman Sea between 1883 and 1892 | |
| Beachport - Robe, South Australia | 01897-05-1010 May 1897 | 6.5 | Several serious and numerous minor injuries. Severe damage to homes, buildings, power lines, and railways. | The epicentre was offshore from Beachport and Robe. Most of the buildings in Beachport and Robe were destroyed. Kingston and Mount Gambier experienced severe damage to many buildings. In Adelaide, widespread panic lead to several minor injuries in crowded areas, and structural damage was caused to many buildings, including Parliament House. |
| Warooka, South Australia | 01902-09-1919 September 1902 | 6.0 | 2 deaths by heart-attack have been attributed to this earthquake. | Significant damage to the township of Warooka. |
| Warrnambool, Victoria | 01903-07-1414 July 1903 | 5.3 | Extensive minor damage in Warrnambool | |
| Indian Ocean, Western Australia | 01906-11-1919 November 1906 | 7.6 | Bottles fell off shelves in Carnarvon, 500 kilometres (311 mi) away. | Felt at Albany, Western Australia, 1,700 kilometres (1,056 mi) away. Strongest earthquake recorded in an Australian territory. |
| Bundaberg - Rockhampton, Queensland | 01918-06-077 June 1918 | 6.0 | Caused "serious damage" to Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Gladstone. | Offshore earthquake. |
| Boolaroo, New South Wales | 01925-12-1818 December 1925 | 5.3 | Damage and panic in Hunter Street (particularly at the Theatre Royal). | |
| North East Tasmania | 01929-12-2929 December 1929 | 5.6 | Significant damage in Launceston, Tasmania, felt across Western Tasmania from Burnie to Hobart. | |
| Gunning, New South Wales | 01934-11-1515 November 1934 | 5.6 | Damaged a majority of the buildings in Gunning. | The quake was felt strongly in Canberra. |
| Gayndah, Queensland | 01935-04-1212 April 1935 | 5.4 | Caused considerable damage to the town of Gayndah. One fatality | |
| Meeberrie, Western Australia | 01941-04-2929 April 1941 | 7.2 | Severe shaking, burst water tanks and cracked ground at Meeberrie homestead. Minor damage reported in Perth, 500 kilometres (311 mi) away. | Strongest onshore earthquake recorded in Australia. |
| Bass Strait, Victoria, Tasmania | 01946-09-1515 September 1946 | 6.2 | Minor damage reported in Tasmania from Burnie to Huonville, and in Gippsland, Victoria | Offshore earthquake |
| Dalton and Gunning, New South Wales | 01949-03-1010 March 1949 | 5.5 | Significant damage in Dalton and Gunning, minor cracks in some buildings in Canberra. | This quake was felt from Sydney in the north to Narooma and Cooma in the south. |
| Adelaide, South Australia | 01954-03-011 March 1954 | 5.5 8 MM |
Damage totaling $90 million. | Widespread minor damage. Considerable damage to many buildings. |
| Gabalong, Western Australia | 01955-08-3030 August 1955 | 5.8 | Felt in Perth | Epicentre near Gabalong, about 30 km east of Moora and 200 km NNE of Perth |
| Robertson and Bowral, New South Wales | 01961-05-2121 May 1961 | 5.6 | $4.1 million | Damage was caused in Moss Vale, Bowral and Robertson. |
| Meckering, Western Australia | 01968-10-1414 October 1968 | 6.9 | 20 injuries, no deaths. 60 buildings destroyed. Minor damage in Perth. Total damage $5 million. |
In Perth, 130 kilometres (81 mi) away, buildings were reported to have swayed for up to 3 minutes following the quake, which is the second strongest onshore earthquake recorded in Australia. The quake was felt up to 700 kilometres (435 mi) from the epicentre. |
| Boolarra, Victoria | 01969-06-2020 June 1969 | 5.3 | Cracked walls and stacked chimneys in and around epicentric area, felt in central and eastern Victoria including Geelong, Benalla and Orbost and on Flinders Island. | |
| Calingiri, Western Australia | 01970-03-1010 March 1970 | 5.9 | No damage reported | This quake was significant in that it was one of only five earthquakes recorded in Australia to have caused surface faulting. It was believed at the time to be related to the 1968 Meckering earthquake, but no connection has yet been demonstrated. |
| Canning Basin, Western Australia | 01970-03-2424 March 1970 | 6.7 | Little damage due to the remoteness of the area | Part of a sequence of c. 25 quakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater in the Canning Basin area of northern Western Australia between 1970 and 1982 |
| Canning Basin, Western Australia | 01971-07-1616 July 1971 | 6.4 | Part of a sequence of c. 25 quakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater in the Canning Basin area of northern Western Australia between 1970 and 1982 | |
| Picton, New South Wales | 01973-03-099 March 1973 | 5.6 | Damage totaling $2.8 million. | Minor damage in Picton, Bowral and Wollongong. |
| Canning Basin, Western Australia | 01975-10-033 October 1975 | 6.2 | Part of a sequence of c. 25 quakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater in the Canning Basin area of northern Western Australia between 1970 and 1982 | |
| Balliang, Victoria | 01977-12-022 December 1977 | 4.7 | Felt strongly in Geelong and across the suburbs of Melbourne, caused minor damage in the Anakie area. | |
| Cadoux, Western Australia | 01979-06-022 June 1979 | 6.1 | No injuries. 25 buildings in Cadoux were damaged. Damage cost $3.8 million. |
Perth, 180 kilometres (112 mi) away experienced some swaying of tall buildings but no damage was reported. This was one of the largest onshore earthquakes recorded in Australia. |
| Wonnangatta, Victoria | 01982-11-2121 November 1982 | 5.4 | The epicentre of this quake was in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, along the Wonnangatta Fault; the quake was mostly felt widely in Eastern Victoria and South Eastern New South Wales and throughout Melbourne and its South Eastern suburbs but not in Geelong. | |
| Marryat Creek, Northern Territory | 01986-03-3030 March 1986 | 5.9 | Damage was minor, cracked walls observed in DeRose Hill and Victory Downs stations. | Felt in Alice Springs 300 kilometres (186 mi) to the north, and Coober Pedy 350 kilometres (217 mi) to the south. |
| Tennant Creek, Northern Territory | 01988-01-2222 January 1988 | 6.3 - 6.7 | Two buildings and 3 other structures damaged, damage caused to natural gas pipeline. Total damage $2.5 million. | Three earthquakes of between 6.3 and 6.7 on the Richter scale. Remarkably caused little damage, despite the intensity of the quake. Felt in high-rise buildings as far away as Perth and Adelaide |
| Uluru, Northern Territory | 01989-05-2828 May 1989 | 5.7 | Minor damage was reported at Yulara resort | |
| Newcastle, New South Wales | 01989-12-2828 December 1989 | 5.6 | 13 fatalities, 160 people hospitalised, 300,000 people affected. 50,000 homes damaged, 300 buildings demolished. Damage estimated at $4 billion. |
To date the most destructive earthquake recorded in Australia, damaging over 50,000 buildings and shutting down the Newcastle CBD for two weeks. Effects of the earthquake were felt over 200,000 square kilometres (77,220 sq mi) up to 800 kilometres (497 mi) away. |
| Arnhem Land, Northern Territory | 01992-09-3030 September 1992 | 5.1 | No damage reported | Felt in Nhulunbuy, Maningrida and Milingimbi. The crew of HMAS Moresby, anchored in Maningrida at the time, felt the quake strongly |
| Banda Sea | 01994-01-044 January 1994 | 6.8 | No injuries, 20 buildings damaged, minor damage to old homes, all in Darwin. | Offshore earthquake in the Banda Sea, north of Darwin. |
| Ellalong, New South Wales | 01994-08-066 August 1994 | 5.4 | 5 people injured 1,000 homes and 50 other buildings damaged, Total damage $36 million. |
Some buildings badly damaged. |
| Mount Baw Baw, Victoria | 01996-09-2525 September 1996 | 5.0 | Thomson Dam region. No major damage | |
| Burra, South Australia | 01997-03-055 March 1997 | 5.0 | No major damage | Felt over a wide area. |
| Collier Bay, Western Australia | 01997-08-1010 August 1997 | 6.3 Mw | No major damage | Felt from Broome to Halls Creek and Kununurra. Strongest earthquake recorded in Australia since the 1988 Tennant Creek earthquake. |
| Appin, New South Wales, southwest of Sydney | 01999-03-1717 March 1999 | 4.8 | 65 kilometres (40 mi) southwest of Sydney, New South Wales | Depth only 3.2 km. Felt in Sydney and caused 1000 homes to lose power. |
| Southern Ocean, southwest of Tasmania | 01999-12-1616 December 1999 | 5.8 | Offshore | 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) southwest of Hobart |
| Cocos Islands | 02000-06-1818 June 2000 | 7.5 Mw | Offshore, felt on Cocos Islands but no damage was reported | 180 kilometres (112 mi) southeast of Cocos Islands |
| Boolarra, Victoria | 02000-08-2929 August 2000 | 5.0 | caused minor damage | Felt strongly throughout Gippsland and South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne. |
| Indian Ocean, Northwest of Western Australia | 02000-10-1111 October 2000 | 5.5 | Offshore | This quake occurred approximately 230 kilometres (143 mi) northwest of Exmouth |
| Southern Ocean, south of Western Australia | 02000-12-2525 December 2000 | 5.7 | Offshore | This quake occurred approximately 860 kilometres (534 mi) south of Albany |
| Burakin, Western Australia | 02001-09-2828 September 2001 | 5.1 | No damage reported | This quake occurred 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Burakin, approximately 190 kilometres (118 mi) northeast of Perth |
| Swan Hill, Victoria | 02001-10-2727 October 2001 | 4.8 | felt in Swan Hill near VIC–NSW border, Minor damage including fallen chimneys and fallen shelve items. | |
| Southern Ocean south of Western Australia | 02001-12-1212 December 2001 | 7.0 Mw | Offshore, felt in Albany and Esperance | 1,020 kilometres (634 mi) south of Esperance |
| Southern Ocean, North of Macquarie Island | 02004-12-2323 December 2004 | 8.1 Mw | Offshore, felt in Tasmania and New Zealand | 500 kilometres (311 mi) north of Macquarie Island, 1,300 kilometres (808 mi) south of Hobart |
| Strahan, Tasmania | 02006-12-1414 December 2006 | 5.0 | Offshore | |
| Korumburra, Victoria | 02009-03-066 March 2009 & 02009-03-1818 March 2009 | 4.7 & 4.7 | felt widely across Melbourne | |
| Darwin | 02010-03-2626 March 2010 | 5.5 | epicentre 600 km NW of Darwin, felt in Darwin, but no damage reported | |
| Kalgoorlie-Boulder | 02010-04-2020 April 2010 | 5.0 | In the earthquake numerous buildings damaged, mainly in Boulder, two people were injured. | Strongest earthquake in the Goldfields region of Western Australia for 50 years. |
| Cleve | 02010-06-055 June 2010 | magnitude 5.0 | felt at Port Lincoln and Whyalla. | |
| Banda Sea | 02011-04-1313 April 2011 | 7.1 | Felt in Darwin. | Offshore earthquake in the Banda Sea, north of Darwin |
| Queensland | 02011-04-1414 April 2011 | 5.2 | Epicentre between Ayr and Bowen. | An earthquake of near this magnitude occurs usually once or twice a decade in Queensland. |
| Indian Ocean, west of Western Australia | 02011-04-1717 April 2011 | 5.2 | Offshore | 522 km (324 mi) west of Port Headland. |
| Indian Ocean, northwest of Western Australia | 02011-12-066 December 2011 | 5.1 | Offshore | 370 kilometres north-north-east of Carnarvon |
| Pukatja-Ernabella, South Australia | 02012-03-2323 March 2012 | 5.7 | Strongest earthquake recorded on the mainland since the 1997 Collier Bay earthquake. Strong shaking was reported by remote Aboriginal communities, but there was no reports of damage. | Earthquake occurred in a remote area near the South Australian border with the Northern Territory, 320 kilometres south-south-west of Alice Springs |
| 10 km south west of Moe, Victoria | 02012-06-1919 June 2012 | 5.4 | Onshore | Strongest earthquake recorded in Victoria since 1982, felt widely across south eastern, north eastern, and parts of western and central Victoria, as well as southern New South Wales. It was felt strongly in Melbourne. Some damage reported in the Latrobe Valley, particularly in Moe and Morwell.
It was felt as far away as Bendigo. |
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