Month: March 2024

Kevin McCue IntroductionThe first earthquake deaths reported in Australia followed the second large earthquake in 5 years in South Australia, on 19 September 1902, the epicentre in Gulf St Vincent as best we can determine. This earthquake was the tipping point for the government to finally agree to provide a seismograph in the state, after… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1900-1909

by Kevin McCue IntroductionThis study of earthquakes in South Australia using newspaper reports began, for the author, in 1975 and is not finished yet as more newspapers are digitised by the National Library of Australia. It confirms that earthquakes of the modern instrumental period following on from the International Geophysical Year in 1957/58 occur in… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1910-1919

by Kevin McCue Introduction Newspaper searches following new scans by the Australian National Library have recovered 40 previously undocumented earthquakes in South Australia and information to revise known historical earthquakes over the decade of the 1920s. There are fewer than expected based on the frequency of earthquakes there in the instrumental period (Love, 1996). These… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1920-1929

by Kevin McCue Introduction The decade of the 1930s showed significant fluctuations in annual numbers of earthquakes identified, located and assigned a magnitude, varying between 0 in 1938 and 17 in 1939 with a mean of 5.5. There were 8 earthquakes in 1939 excluding aftershocks of the damaging Nilpena earthquake near Parachilna on 26 March… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1930-1939