South Australia just had a 5.6 earthquake.

no news items yet to include as its only just happened. from the looks of the info on rsoe, it centred in the outback right on the boarder. more details as they come in.

while others may not think its big...the last 5.6 we had was back in 1989 in Newcastle which had fatalities.

5.6 in the outback?

probably wasnt anyone there to feel it.

Certainly wasn't felt by me here in Adelaide.
Quite unusual for Oz to get one of that magnitude, especially in the outback of all places.

i dont understand, i thought there arent any faultlines in australia. how can there be an earthquake?
someone educate the jazzguy please.

Yes there will be more to come in that area,but dates and times are uncertain but we know where they come from and that is important.

reply to post by jazzguy


There are plenty of fault lines in Australia.

cooberpedyregionaltimes.wordpress.com...

In fact, this article specifically mentions Southern Australia.

reply to post by DaTroof


cheers for the info. i will go read

yup seen this about an hour ago on the windows gadget i have on my desktop. was talking to my uncle over there and he felt nothing, then again he's in sydney and thats nearly a whole country away lol

Looks to be right in the center of OZ looking at this site:

earthalerts.manyjourneys.com...

317 km (196 miles) SSW of Alice Springs, Northern Terr., Australia
370 km (229 miles) WNW of Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia
415 km (257 miles) NW of Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia
1926 km (1196 miles) WNW of CANBERRA, A.C.T., Australia
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/-

Yeh, I'm in Adelaide and felt nothing.

Still, given the frequency of our quakes (or lack thereof) and relative strength this is out of the norm and could even be related to the 188 day cycle.....as much as I'm loathed to admit......or it is just coincidence....

reply to post by tauristercus


Precisely...seeing even 1 EQ on the Quake map in Australia is very rare.....

reply to post by LightAssassin


196 mile from Alice Springs! Only 6 mile deep.

reply to post by LightAssassin


It's not as rare as you think, it's jsut that we don't often get many that can be felt...

10 in the last 7 days:

www.ga.gov.au...

reply to post by quedup


Whoever was in the area certainly felt it

Near Ernabella, South Australia.
Magnitude: 6.1 (ML)
Depth: 3 km
Tsunamigenic: No

Date and Time
UTC: 23 March 2012 @ 09:25:13
AEST: 23 March 2012 @ 20:25:13

Location
Coordinates: -26.131, 131.945

Official Geoscience Data

reply to post by diamondsmith


Been plenty in the area already...

neic.usgs.gov...

Why do you say there will be more?

reply to post by Chadwickus


Yes, apologies, we don't get larger ones like that.

Originally posted by diamondsmith
Yes there will be more to come in that area,but dates and times are uncertain but we know where they come from and that is important.

well that is quite vague. How do you know this and who is we? you seem to try and put yourself out there as an expert on quite a few threads.


Seems odd to have a 5.6 in SA, even if it is way north.

reply to post by LightAssassin


Guess it's sparsely populated around there? I don't know? Hopefully!

reply to post by quedup


Yeh, it's outback......WAY outback.

A couple of Kangaroos, Dingoes...and maybe a Gecko felt it.

OK, it's not really. There would have been plenty who felt it. Alice Springs may have, tourists at Uluru probably would have.

reply to post by bellagirl


that is bugga all...when I was outback I had to change the roll on the "siesm[wtf = i, e, or an a?) graph" every morning and 5.6 is like a small case of flatulence...out in the Southern Flinders, that isn't anything even worth talking about.

Maybe a 7+ but even then, if you got excited, everyone would laugh and think you were an idiot because it isn't anything worth mentioning.

It also depends on the depth and out where I was, Woomera way... Strezleki Desert..mining can cause up and register up to a 5 so don't worry.