by Col Lynam. During my attempts at curating and revitalising the University of Queensland Seismograph Stations’ (UQSS) collection, I came across 1956 correspondence and 2 seismograms from the late Father Joe McKey from St Mary’s…
Earth movements in Australia – Milne, Oct 1885
An article in The Argus, published on 10 October 1885, was written by John Milne, a significant contributor to the science of seismology who is credited as the inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph in 1880. The…
Paper from 1951 on Australian Seismicity
This paper on the seismicity of Australia was only the second listing of earthquakes in continental Australia, and the first by an Australian seismologist using local data. T. N. Burke-Gaffney tabulated 44 earthquakes with their origin time, location…