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A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southern Queensland on Saturday morning, with residents reporting that their houses shook.
A magnitude-5.6 quake struck inland from the Sunshine Coast on Saturday morning, with tremors felt as far north as ...
Strong aftershocks are still possible in the wake of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Queensland at the weekend.
There was no threat of tsunami to Queensland, Australia's weather forecaster said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...
An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 struck near the east coast of Australia early Saturday, the European Mediterranean ...
Queensland records hundreds of earthquakes each year but disaster authorities believe the state is at greater risk of being ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck near the east coast of Australia on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Queensland, Australia, on August 16, 2025, at a shallow depth of 10 km, according to ...
With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be ...
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 ...
Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...
Earthquakes are primarily caused by movements in the Earth's crust, generating sound waves that propagate through the Earth. According to Derrick Hasterok, a lecturer in earth sciences at the ...