This paper lists felt-earthquakes in Victoria before 1954 with better-substantiated dates, magnitudes and locations. A significant earthquake and aftershock listed in 1868 actually occurred in 1869. Earthquakes felt throughout Melbourne in 1862 and 1892 and others have been re- discovered; surprising how often earthquakes have rattled Melbourne and suburbs. This and other new information has…
Kevin McCue has updated his very comprehensive article on the historical seismicity of New South Wales. The original article, first published in 2012, is still available in our Articles section. Download the full updated PDF article: Historical earthquakes in NSW
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 article discusses early observations of earthquake activity and monitoring in Australia.
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 and magnitude. Burke-Gaffney was a Jesuit priest, teacher, historian and seismologist at Riverview College in Sydney.