Author: Kevin McCue

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

by Kevin McCue Introduction This is the first or last of a series of reports discussing the seismicity of South Australia by decade prior to the establishment of a useful seismograph network there from 1958 to 1963. The 1950s was a most important decade for the science of seismology and the practice of earthquake engineering… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1950-1959

by Kevin McCue Introduction In the decade of the 1940s shown in the histogram in Figure 1 the number of detected and located earthquakes per year varied between 3 and 12 with a mean of 4.75/year, almost identical to the previous decade. The largest earthquake was the M6.5 Simpson Desert earthquake on 27 June 1941,… Continue reading South Australian Earthquakes 1940-1949

Kevin McCue Introduction Seventy years ago at 3:40am on Monday morning the 1st March 1954, a strong earthquake shook Adelaide and the region damaging buildings and injuring 4 people. It was shear luck that no one died. It cost insurance companies more than £3M to repair insured buildings. Few businesses, churches and some housing were… Continue reading The 1954 Adelaide Earthquake in review