Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 17 Sep 2018 00:24 UTC

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M 5.3 in Vanuatu on 17 Sep 2018 00:24 UTC

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Panamá participará en simulacro de tsunami

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:26:00 +0200laestrella (es)

Más de 40 países ribereños del Pacífico, entre ellos Panamá, participarán en un simulacro de tsunami de septiembre a noviembre de 2018 para poner a prueba sus procedimientos de toma de decisiones y sus sistemas de comunicación para estos casos. “Los tsunamis que azotaron la región de Samoa en 2009,....

WA is smack-bang in the middle of a tectonic plate, so why does it get so many earthquakes?

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:15:00 +0200abc-au (en)

The largest was the 6.5-magnitude quake at Meckering in 1968 that injured 20 and left hundreds of families homeless. But Western Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place? No fault line doesn't mean no worries.

Why does WA get the country's largest tremors?

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0200abc-au (en)

on Sunday afternoon. West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany No serious damage was reported, but the quake was considered "uncommonly large". Some of the largest recorded earthquakes across Australia have happened in WA.

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