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Annecdote: I often find that buildings in Australia vibrate / shake. One that stands out in my mind, there's a shopping center in southern Sydney suburb of Hurs
by bouncycastle 8y ago
Annecdote: I often find that buildings in Australia vibrate / shake. One that stands out in my mind, there's a shopping center in southern Sydney suburb of Hurstville, at one particular spot, it feels like a short tremblor is striking every 10 mins, to the point where I looked up if anyone else may be concerned. There are a lot of cracks in the concrete, but I think that I've read somewhere that as long as the cracks are vertical, that's not bad. However, I'm somehow not convinced that this building would survive should a small real earthquake occur (rare for Sydney, but there was a Newcastle one in recent memory).
- jazoom 8y agoAlso anecdote: I've lived in 3 different Australian states over 30 years and have never once felt the ground or a building shake. This is not an "Australia" thing.
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- jboles 8y agoThe Hurstville shopping centre is right above a train station; Australia is largely earthquake free.
- rjst01 8y agoI used to work on the 7th floor of the building at 1-5 Railway St, Chatswood. Sometimes at around 5pm the building would shake subtly but noticeably, we theorised it was from the trains passing underneath.
- cyphar 8y ago> However, I'm somehow not convinced that this building would survive should a small real earthquake occur (rare for Sydney, but there was a Newcastle one in recent memory). The last major earthquake we had in Australia was in the 1989 (and was the 5.6 Newcastle one you mentioned). Since then there have only been 15 earthquakes, many of them less than 4th magnitude. A major earthquake almost 30 years ago is hardly recent. We're in the middle of a tectonic plate, earthquakes are extraordinarily rare.