Southeastern Australia has been hit by an earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude. It's Australia's strongest quake in about 24 years. In this photo, geologists look at the seismograph for a 2007 earthquake.

Northern Territory residents have been rocked by a strong offshore earthquake which has rattled the Top End. Geoscience ...

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 ...

The earthquake is notable not for its destruction but for how unusual such quakes are in Australia. High-magnitude earthquakes are rare, and when they do occur are usually located in the country's ...

Geoscience Australia, the Australian government agency that reports on significant earthquakes, said the quake was detected at 9:15 a.m. local time, and occurred at a depth or around 10 kilometers ...

On average, 100 earthquakes are recorded in Australia each year. Most are small, around magnitude 3 or more. In December 1989, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit the New South Wales city of Newcastle ...

An earthquake of this size is expected every “10-20 years in southeast Australia, the last was Thorpdale in 2012,” he added. “This is significantly bigger.” ...

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 ...

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, Australia (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia. The quake hit about 130 kilometers ...