Articles

Historical earthquakes in New South Wales

By Kevin McCue This study tabulates seismic events between 1842 and 1954 few of which have magnitudes and so are not in modern catalogues. A magnitude 5 earthquake in 1860 that caused minor damage in…

Lae Earthquake strong motion analysis

By Bill Boyce What are believed to be the first strong motion analyses of a Papua New Guinea earthquake were presented at the 42nd ANZAAS Congress in Port Moresby in August 1970 and published in…

Historical earthquakes in Victoria

By Kevin McCue This article focuses on 15 earthquakes reported in local and interstate newspapers including two poorly studied, moderate-sized earthquakes that shook Melbourne in 1922, one not in the national earthquake database, the other…

Damaging Earthquakes Database Review, 2010

By James Daniell 2010 will be etched in many people’s memories as the “year of the earthquake” – especially for those living in Haiti. 2010 started with a catastrophic earthquake for the country of Haiti.…