Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...

An earthquake has shaken homes outside of Adelaide on Sunday night. A 2.8 magnitude earthquake was detected near Strathalbyn ...

With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be quite rare in Australia. But it turns out they're more common than you'd think ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 struck near the east coast of Australia early Saturday, the European Mediterranean ...

A large earthquake has struck the Australian state of Queensland. Geoscience Australia measured the quake at magnitude 5.6, ...

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Queensland, Australia, on August 16, 2025, at a 10 km depth, per EMSC. No damage or ...

This article delves into the causes of earthquakes, their frequency in Australia, and why they occur even away from fault lines. Earthquakes are primarily caused by movements in the Earth’s crust that ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck near the east coast of Australia on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological ...

Geoscience Australia explains that the most severe earthquakes typically happen along the boundaries of tectonic plates, which are massive slabs of rock forming the Earth's outer crust. These plates ...