Great video. I have a Raspberry Shake seismometer sitting on a slab in a garden shed in my yard in Sydney N.S.W. and use the Geoscience email alerts to check it for activity. I have recorded some of the Southern Highland and Hunter Valley quakes in recent years as well as the larger ones around the Pacific rim and Indonesia and PNG. It's a great citizen science activity.
Either yesterday 27/7 or Friday 26/7 at 6:30am I heard what sounded like thunder where I live just north of Mittagong in NSW's Southern Highlands, but even though it was raining, I thought it was a bit odd to hear it just the once. Later in the day someone said that there had been an earth-tremor but I was certain I hadn't felt anything! What was also puzzling, was the fact that the Earthquakes@GA website listed no quakes/tremors despite quite a few reports from residents of the Mittagong/Bowral/Moss Vale feeling something (plus one report from Lake Illawarra?) which was a bit odd. After thinking about it for a while it did dawn on me that maybe it was really an aircraft from the Australian air-force or navy which had produced a sonic-boom while on manoeuvrers!?!
Just discovered this great YT channel, & really found this information interesting, but it does show how much there's always a struggle to obtain scientific funding for research & monitoring here in Australia! I always keep a tab open on the USGS earthquake webpage, plus the Earthquakes@GA website is bookmarked!
I remember the Meckering quake. I was 10 standing next to my mum in the Bunbury railway station some 250 km away. Such a strange feeling but as a kid more bemused watching people and things fall down and over. But considering the number of earth quakes around the world every day I think perhaps Australia's very small number might render our big rock pretty stable.
I found this video very interesting. I didn't know that Australia has had so many Earthquakes over the years.I was living in Mackay when the earthquake hit Bowen. It sounded like a truck dropped it's trailer on the road & skidding a long ,rocked the house & lost a few windows & we were 2 hrs down the road from Bowen.
I'm on board, hopefully you become our favourite geological educator as I think my girl is enjoying Nik Zentner a little too much. May all your vids be as good as this one.
Brigitte L Jones. Glad you are providing this information especially living in Vic AU. I used to get information the most recent earthquakes from I think a US site that doesn't exist or cover AU quakes. Haven't found recent sites covering fault lines and other quake causes for AU. Your site looks promising. Though I'd like to suggest you slow down and take more time to cover in a bit more depth these quake causes as it would be appreciated.
Australia is so isolated and self. Sufficieit's also a very rich country so. If they ever do have a natural disaster, they can kinda just help themselves. I didn't even know they had Earthquakes in Australia. I thought that was the one place on earth where people were safe from any kind of natural disaster except fire and politics.
well Australia should NEVER go ahead with nuclear power generation then, look at Japan for another obvious example of why earthquake-prone countries should never have nuclear power.
I remember the Beaconsfield mine disaster and rescue, nationwide news for weeks. Didn't realise it was from an earthquake.
Didn't realise that earthquake waves travel further in Australia than in places where the earth's crust experiences more disturbance. Interesting 😊
Thank you for including W.A.
Great video. I have a Raspberry Shake seismometer sitting on a slab in a garden shed in my yard in Sydney N.S.W. and use the Geoscience email alerts to check it for activity. I have recorded some of the Southern Highland and Hunter Valley quakes in recent years as well as the larger ones around the Pacific rim and Indonesia and PNG. It's a great citizen science activity.
Thoroughly enjoying your videos and learning so much I never knew about.
Either yesterday 27/7 or Friday 26/7 at 6:30am I heard what sounded like thunder where I live just north of Mittagong in NSW's Southern Highlands, but even though it was raining, I thought it was a bit odd to hear it just the once. Later in the day someone said that there had been an earth-tremor but I was certain I hadn't felt anything! What was also puzzling, was the fact that the Earthquakes@GA website listed no quakes/tremors despite quite a few reports from residents of the Mittagong/Bowral/Moss Vale feeling something (plus one report from Lake Illawarra?) which was a bit odd.
After thinking about it for a while it did dawn on me that maybe it was really an aircraft from the Australian air-force or navy which had produced a sonic-boom while on manoeuvrers!?!
my friend in bowral reported this to me aswell. said there was also a bright flash in the sky. they thought it was a meteor.
Fascinating!
Just discovered this great YT channel, & really found this information interesting, but it does show how much there's always a struggle to obtain scientific funding for research & monitoring here in Australia!
I always keep a tab open on the USGS earthquake webpage, plus the Earthquakes@GA website is bookmarked!
Very interesting.
Fascinating. I was at a playground with my daughter in 2017 in Townsville. I remember that one.
Very nice information. Thank you
Thanks for sharing, just found your channel and love it!
Same here. Very important information indeed.
Thank you, this was very enlightening. Please continue to educate us about our continent's seismology.
Great rundown. Thank you. Look forward to more (information, not earthquakes)
Excellent presentation. I was near the 6.1 event. South west Northern Territory. 2016. Always wondered the Magnitude.
I remember the Meckering quake. I was 10 standing next to my mum in the Bunbury railway station some 250 km away. Such a strange feeling but as a kid more bemused watching people and things fall down and over. But considering the number of earth quakes around the world every day I think perhaps Australia's very small number
might render our big rock pretty stable.
I found this video very interesting. I didn't know that Australia has had so many Earthquakes over the years.I was living in Mackay when the earthquake hit Bowen. It sounded like a truck dropped it's trailer on the road & skidding a long ,rocked the house & lost a few windows & we were 2 hrs down the road from Bowen.
I'm on board, hopefully you become our favourite geological educator as I think my girl is enjoying Nik Zentner a little too much.
May all your vids be as good as this one.
Instrumentation has certainly put paid to the myth that Australia doesn't have earthquakes. Thanks for the video.
I often wonder whats happening in Antarctica as well.
Some Earthquakes such as the Ache Tsunami in Indonesia, was a military generated one, see "Project Seal" - N.Z.
Brigitte L Jones. Glad you are providing this information especially living in Vic AU. I used to get information the most recent earthquakes from I think a US site that doesn't exist or cover AU quakes. Haven't found recent sites covering fault lines and other quake causes for AU. Your site looks promising. Though I'd like to suggest you slow down and take more time to cover in a bit more depth these quake causes as it would be appreciated.
What about the fault line in the Strzelecki Ranges in Victoria?
My Son and his Wife left Newcastle to holiday with us in Jindabine. That evening we watched the earthquake on TV. SO lucky to not be there.
Wow ! I had no idea we had so many quakes
I'm from Newcastle, that was big bump. It was bigger than 5.6 . Around 5.9 from memory.
Australia is so isolated and self. Sufficieit's also a very rich country so. If they ever do have a natural disaster, they can kinda just help themselves. I didn't even know they had Earthquakes in Australia. I thought that was the one place on earth where people were safe from any kind of natural disaster except fire and politics.
Good vid - but why exactly do we get Earthquakes - what causes them here.?? John Sydney
has cairns qld ever had any ?
earthquakes requires time , why when it just can happen like that .gotta like the blue planet 💙
well Australia should NEVER go ahead with nuclear power generation then, look at Japan for another obvious example of why earthquake-prone countries should never have nuclear power.
No earthquake ever recorded on mainland Australia would damage a nuclear reactor with current design parameters.
@@gandjconway30exactly!
@@gandjconway30 i hope not