A town in Victoria’s central east has woken to a mammoth 2.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning. The 2.8 magnitude ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia. The quake hit about 80 miles northeast ...

A powerful earthquake has struck Western Australia's central Wheatbelt overnight. The 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit near the rural town of Wyalkatchem, about 192km east of Perth, at a depth of 6km ...

Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century – swaying buildings but ultimately causing very little damage.

A powerful earthquake has hit Australia, with shockwaves being reportedly felt several kilometres away from the epicentre. The 4.1-magnitude tremor struck at around 4pm local time (7.30am BST) on ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Australia on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 2:55 a.m. Australian Eastern time about 19 ...

An unusually dense 'swarm sequence' of earthquakes has rocked the south-east coast of Australia with 17 separate rumbles recorded in just a week.

Earthquakes have hit Australia more frequently in recent years, but this rise is still within long-term patterns. On Sunday night, Melbourne residents were shaken by a magnitude 3.8 earthquake.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck the New South Wales Hunter Valley early on Wednesday morning, jolting awake residents across a wide swathe of eastern Australia, including parts of Sydney and ...

The location of the 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Banda Sea is shown on a map, off the coast of Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands Region and East Timor, on Jan. 10, 2023. USGS HANDOUT/EPA-EFE ...

However, by far Australia's most catastrophic earthquake happened on December 28, 1989, in the NSW city of Newcastle. The devastating 5.6 magnitude disaster claimed 13 lives and levelled about 300 ...

Photo / Geoscience Australia Power has been restored to homes in NSW's Hunter region after its third earthquake in weeks, but seismologists warn more aftershocks are likely to follow.