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 Yass, has been rediscovered along with other previously unclassified earthquakes of interest, plus two mining-induced tremor and a landslip blamed on an earthquake…

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