List of earthquakes in Australia

This is a list of significant earthquakes recorded within Australia and its territories. Unless otherwise stated, this list uses the Richter magnitude scale, as most reports use this scale. The currency used is the Australian dollar (A$) unless noted otherwise.

List of earthquakes

State	Location	Date	M	Effects & Damage	Notes & references
New South Wales	Parramatta, Western Sydney	7 May 1804	Unknown	Felt between 9pm and 10pm from Parramatta to the Hawkesbury region.	[1][2]
New South Wales	Newcastle	2 August 1837	Unknown	Caused alarm in Newcastle. Apparently miners under the ground were unaware of the shaking.	[2]
New South Wales	Newcastle	28 October 1842	5.3	Caused alarm in Newcastle.	[3]
-	Offshore Cape Schanck	17 September 1855	5.5	Caused minor damage in Melbourne and surroundings. Largest earthquake recorded along the Selwyn Fault since European Settlement. The Selywn Fault is capable of producing earthquakes between magnitude 7.0- 7.5 roughly every 1800 years.
New South Wales	Newcastle	18 June 1868	5.3	Damage in Hunter Street and the Newcastle suburbs of The Hill and Wallsend (then known as Pitt Town).	[4]
Victoria	Eastern Highlands	29 August 1868	5.0	Felt throughout North-eastern Victoria, Gippsland, Albury and South-eastern New South Wales. Not felt in Melbourne.
Queensland	Gayndah	28 August 1883	5.9	Caused major damage in the Gayndah region.	[5]
Tasmania and Victoria	Tasman Sea	13 July 1884	6.4	Felt in Tasmania and in eastern Victoria[6]	Offshore quake
Tasmania and Victoria	Tasman Sea	12 May 1885	6.8	Felt in Tasmania and in eastern Victoria[6]	Offshore quake
Victoria	Cape Liptrap	2 July 1885	5.7	Tied with the 1922 and 1965 events as Victoria's largest earthquake. Felt throughout Victoria, including Melbourne and Geelong. Minor damage around epicentre.
New South Wales/ACT	Yass	15 November 1886	5.5 (estimated)	Damage caused in Yass, felt strongly in Queanbeyan.	[7]
Tasmania and Victoria	Tasman Sea	26 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.[6][8]
South Australia	Beachport - Robe	10 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.[9]
South Australia	Warooka	19 September 1902	6.0	2 deaths by heart-attack have been attributed to this earthquake.	Significant damage to the township of Warooka.[10]
Victoria	Warrnambool	14 July 1903	5.3	Extensive minor damage in Warrnambool
Victoria	Alpine National Park	10 April 1904	5.0	Felt throughout North East Victoria and Southern New South Wales, but not in Melbourne.
New South Wales	Newcastle	16 May 1906	Unknown	Damage in the suburb of The Hill. Ruptured water mains. Caused some cliff erosion	[11][12]
Western Australia	Indian Ocean	19 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.[13]
New South Wales	Taree - Newcastle	11 June 1916	Unknown	Damage to the Seal Rocks lighthouse. Caused alarm along the Mid-North Coast.	[14]
Queensland	Bundaberg - Rockhampton	7 June 1918	6.0	Caused "serious damage" to Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Gladstone.	Offshore earthquake.[15]
Victoria	Offshore Ocean Grove	10 April 1922	5.7	Chimney collapse in Glen Iris. Objects thrown from shelves in Cranbourne, East Malvern, Pakenham and Portalington. Felt as far north as Ivanhoe, as far west as Warnambool and as far south as Burnie, Tasmania. A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck a few kilometres east of this earthquake back on the morning of 1 March 1922, which was felt throughout Melbourne, knocking picture frames off a wall in Cowes.
New South Wales	Newcastle	18 December 1925	5.3	Damage and panic in Hunter Street (particularly at the Theatre Royal).	[16]
Tasmania	North East Tasmania	29 December 1929	5.6	Significant damage in Launceston, Tasmania; felt across Western Tasmania from Burnie to Hobart.	[17][18]
Victoria	Mornington	3 September 1932	4.5	Felt widely in Melbourne, Geelong, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport Bay and Gippsland. Minor damage. Largest earthquake along the infamous Selwyn Fault since the 5.5 magnitude quake of 1855, which occurred a few kilometres offshore of Cape Schanck.
New South Wales	Gunning	15 November 1934	5.6	Damaged a majority of the buildings in Gunning.	The quake was felt strongly in Canberra.[7]
Queensland	Gayndah	12 April 1935	5.4	Caused considerable damage to the town of Gayndah. One fatality.[19]	[20]
Western Australia	Meeberrie	29 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.[21]
Victoria / Tasmania	Bass Strait	15 September 1946	6.2	Minor damage reported in Tasmania from Burnie to Huonville, and in Gippsland, Victoria [22]	Offshore earthquake[6][23]
New South Wales	Dalton and Gunning	10 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.[7][24]
South Australia	Adelaide	1 March 1954	5.5 8 MM	Damage totaling $90 million.	Widespread minor damage. Considerable damage to many buildings.[25]
Western Australia	Gabalong	30 August 1955	5.8	Felt in Perth	Epicentre near Gabalong, about 30 km east of Moora and 200 km NNE of Perth[26][27]
Victoria	Cape Otway	25 December 1960	5.3	Struck at 2:42am on Christmas Day, awakening many across Victoria, including Melbourne. No major damage reported.
New South Wales	Robertson and Bowral	21 May 1961	5.6	$4.1 million [28]	Damage was caused in Moss Vale, Bowral and Robertson.[29]
Victoria	Bass Strait	14 September 1965	5.7 & 5.0	Unknown	Earthquake doublet off the coast of the Otway Ranges; the first, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, occurred at 10:34 PM; the second, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, occurred at 10:53 PM. [30][31]
Victoria	Mt Hotham	4 May 1966	5.5	Broken Windows at Mt Hotham Ski Village.	Felt across North-eastern Victoria, Gippsland and South-eastern New South Wales. Not felt in Melbourne.
Western Australia	Meckering	14 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.[32]
Victoria	Boolarra, Victoria	20 June 1969	5.3	5.0 aftershock two days later.	Cracked walls and stacked chimneys in and around epicentral area. Felt in central and eastern Victoria including Geelong, Benalla and Orbost and on Flinders Island.[33]
Western Australia	Calingiri	10 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.[34]
Western Australia	Canning Basin	24 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[35]
Victoria	Western Port	7 July 1971	5.0	Minor damage in Cowes, Flinders and Shoreham.	Felt throughout Melbourne, Western Port Bay and Gippsland.
Western Australia	Canning Basin	16 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[35]
New South Wales	Picton	9 March 1973	5.6	Damage totaling $2.8 million.[36]	Minor damage in Picton, Bowral and Wollongong.[36]
Western Australia	Canning Basin	3 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[35]
Victoria	Balliang	2 December 1977	4.7	A young boy suffered from a broken arm after being shaken from the top of his bunk bed in a caravan on the Mornington Peninsula.	Felt strongly in Geelong and across the suburbs of Melbourne, caused minor damage in the Anakie area.[37]
Western Australia	Cadoux	2 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.[38]
Victoria	Offshore Apollo Bay	17 June 1981	5.1	Flower pots knocked off shelves in Apollo Bay.	Felt in Melbourne and across southern Victoria.
Victoria	Wonnangatta, Victoria	21 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.[39]
Northern Territory	Marryat Creek	30 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.[40]
Northern Territory	Tennant Creek	22 January 1988	6.7, 6.4, 6.3	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[41][42]
Northern Territory	Uluru	28 May 1989	5.7	Minor damage was reported at Yulara resort	[43]
New South Wales	Newcastle, New South Wales	28 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.[44]
Northern Territory	Arnhem Land	30 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	4 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.[45]
New South Wales	Ellalong	6 August 1994	5.4	5 people injured 1,000 homes and 50 other buildings damaged, Total damage $36 million.	Some buildings badly damaged.[46]
Victoria	Mount Baw Baw	25 September 1996	5.0	Thomson Dam region. No major damage	[47]
South Australia	Burra	5 March 1997	5.0	No major damage	Felt over a wide area.
Western Australia	Collier Bay	10 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.
New South Wales	Appin, New South Wales, southwest of Sydney	17 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.[48]
-	Southern Ocean, southwest of Tasmania	16 December 1999	5.8	Offshore	1,000 kilometres (621 mi) southwest of Hobart[49]
-	Cocos Islands	18 June 2000	7.5 Mw	Offshore, felt on Cocos Islands but no damage was reported	180 kilometres (112 mi) southeast of Cocos Islands[50]
Victoria	Boolarra, Victoria	29 August 2000	5.0	Caused minor damage	Felt strongly throughout Gippsland and South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne.
Western Australia	Indian Ocean, Northwest of Western Australia	11 October 2000	5.5	Offshore	This quake occurred approximately 230 kilometres (143 mi) northwest of Exmouth[50]
Western Australia	Southern Ocean, south of Western Australia	25 December 2000	5.7	Offshore	This quake occurred approximately 860 kilometres (534 mi) south of Albany[50]
Western Australia	Burakin	28 September 2001	5.1	No damage reported	This quake occurred 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Burakin, approximately 190 kilometres (118 mi) northeast of Perth[51]
Victoria	Swan Hill, Victoria	27 October 2001	4.8		Felt in Swan Hill near VIC–NSW border, Minor damage including fallen chimneys and fallen shelve items. Power disruptions.
Western Australia	Southern Ocean south of Western Australia	12 December 2001	7.0 Mw	Offshore, felt in Albany and Esperance	1,020 kilometres (634 mi) south of Esperance[51]
-	Southern Ocean, North of Macquarie Island	23 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[52]
Tasmania	Strahan	14 December 2006	5.0	Offshore	[53]
Victoria	Korumburra, Victoria	6 March 2009 & 18 March 2009	4.7 & 4.7		Felt widely across Melbourne [54]
Northern Territory	Darwin	26 March 2010	5.5		epicentre 600 km NW of Darwin, felt in Darwin, but no damage reported
Western Australia	Kalgoorlie-Boulder	20 April 2010	5.0	In the earthquake numerous buildings damaged, mainly in Boulder, two people were injured.[55]	Strongest earthquake in the Goldfields region of Western Australia for 50 years.
South Australia-	Cleve	5 June 2010	5.0		felt at Port Lincoln and Whyalla.[56]
-	Banda Sea	13 April 2011	7.1	Felt in Darwin.	Offshore earthquake in the Banda Sea, north of Darwin
Queensland	Queensland	16 April 2011	5.2	Epicentre between Ayr and Bowen.	An earthquake of near this magnitude occurs usually once or twice a decade in Queensland.[57]
Western Australia	Indian Ocean, west of Western Australia	17 April 2011	5.2	Offshore	522 km (324 mi) west of Port Hedland.[58]
Western Australia	Indian Ocean, northwest of Western Australia	6 December 2011	5.1	Offshore	370 kilometres north-north-east of Carnarvon[59]
South Australia	Pukatja-Ernabella	23 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 reported damage.[60]	Earthquake occurred in a remote area near the South Australian border with the Northern Territory, 320 kilometres south-south-west of Alice Springs[61]
Victoria	10 km south west of Moe, Victoria	19 June 2012	5.4[62][63]	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.	Strongest earthquake recorded in Victoria since 1982.[64]
Northern Territory	Near Mulga Park	8 June 2013	5.8	40 kilometres north of Ernabella earthquake on 23 March 2012[65]
Queensland	Near Eidsvold	16 Feb 2015	5.2	Felt in the Bundaberg Region[66]	[67]
Queensland	Coral Sea, 100 km east of Fraser Island	30 July 2015	5.3	Felt as far south as the Gold Coast[68]
Queensland	Coral Sea, 110 km east of Fraser Island	1 August 2015	5.7, 5.2	First tremor was felt as far south as northern New South Wales.[69]	Magnitude 5.7 earthquake was largest to hit Queensland since 1918.[70]
Northern Territory	460 km south-west of Alice Springs	21 May 2016	6.1	No damage or injuries were reported.	Strongest earthquake in the Northern Territory since the Tennant Creek earthquakes on 22 January 1988.[71]
Western Australia	50 km east of Norseman	29 May 2016	5.2	No damage or injuries were reported.	A magnitude 4.9 earthquake was recorded about an hour before the 5.2 earthquake, which was then followed by two aftershocks measuring 3.0 and 3.2.[72]
Queensland	54 km east northeast of Bowen	18 August 2016	5.7		[73]

Other significant earthquakes

• Broome, 16 August 1929, magnitude 6.6, offshore earthquake to the north-west of Broome, Western Australia.
• Simpson Desert, 21 December 1937, magnitude 6.0, in a remote location of the Simpson Desert in the Northern Territory, south-east of Alice Springs.
• Simpson Desert, 27 June 1941, magnitude 6.5, in a remote location of the Simpson Desert in the Northern Territory, south-east of Alice Springs.
• Adelaide, 16 April 2010, magnitude 3.8,^[74]
• Grampians, 1 June 2011, Magnitude 3.8,^[75] felt in Ararat, Halls Gap, Pomonal and Stawell^[76]
• Adelaide, 19 October 2011, magnitude 3.3, epicentre Upper Sturt, felt up to 31 km away. Struck at 2:22am ^[77]
• Korumburra, Victoria, 5 July 2011, Magnitude 4.4,^[78] felt over many Melbourne suburbs^[79]
• Manilla, 8 June 2012, Magnitude 4.3, epicentre approximately 50 km north west of Tamworth^[80]
• Boorowa, 22 June 2012, Magnitude 3.8^[81]
• Hawker, 6 January 2014, Magnitude 3.0^[82]
• Aberfoyle Park, 6 January 2014, Magnitude 2.6^[83][84]

See also

• Earthquakes in Western Australia
• Geology of Australia

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External links

• Seismicity in Australia