> 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 re

> 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.