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March 24, 2012

ERNABELLA, Australia (BNO NEWS) — The central region of Australia was struck by the country’s largest earthquake in nearly 15 years on Friday evening, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.


The 6.1-magnitude earthquake at 7:55 p.m. local time (0925 GMT) on Friday was centered about 27.4 kilometers (17 miles) northwest of Ernabella Airport, a tiny airstrip near the border with South Australia and the Northern Territory. It struck about 3 kilometers (1.8 mile) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to Geoscience Australia.

The region near Ernabella is home to hundreds of indigenous Australians, but police said there were no reports of injuries or damage. The United States Geological Survey (USGS), which measured the strength of the earthquake at 5.6 on the body wave magnitude (Mb) scale, estimated that some 5,000 people in the sparsely populated region may have felt the quake.

Friday’s earthquake was the largest to hit mainland Australia since August 1997, when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded off Collier Bay on West Australia’s far north coast. It was widely felt but no serious damage was reported, and there were no injuries.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... nim/world/
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Aether, glad to hear everyone's safe. Their is loads of earthquakes all over the world, what's going on? Some people believe that a lot are manmade ( like a lot of our weather,droughts etc), afterall they have the technology! We are told we will have a hosepipe ban as water is lower than it has been for thirty years, or so they said the other day ( never mind I got the watering can).
Have you seen Dutch he has some good info to keep everyone updated?
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/