I grew up with an anecdote along the lines of that in the 60s or 70s there’d been one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded in Australia, and the total prope

I grew up with an anecdote along the lines of that in the 60s or 70s there’d been one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded in Australia, and the total property damage had been that one cow shed fell over, because that’s how empty much of Western Australia or Northern Territory is. The anecdote may be slightly exaggerated for comedic effect, but it’s also probably not far off the truth.