Newcastle Earthquake
At 10.27am on the 28th of December 1989 Newcastle was rocked by a 5.5 strength earthquake. PLEASE NOTE !!!..This Is Channel NBN 3s TV Coverage
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i was only a kid, i was in wallsend, i just remember the whole house shaking, my mum thought that someone had driven into the house and ran into the front room where my baby sister was sleeping
twas a bit scary
im from west wallsend and i was in the lounge room and the whole house shook
what do you need to know?
I was living at Barnsley at the time and thought that one of the mines had collapsed. I endeavored to phone my husband at his job in Cardiff only to continually receive the engaged signal. It was a long 4 hours before he came home with tales of what happened to him and his colleagues. I was suppose to be in Hamilton that day, but had been asked to babysit a neighbors daughter which I am pleased I chose to do.
I was 5 years old and was walking over the Tea Gardens bridge with my Mum…we felt nothing.
You remember it when you were 7 months old? shit you must have a good memory!
Was at a church for a friends baby shower and i was holding onto the fence and then everything went crazy and i watched the church wobble like jelly!! : O
Australia’s had a lot of earthquakes over time – most of them are small, some areas are particularly prone to them (eg Cadoux and Meckering in WA). This is as far as I’m aware the only time a quake has actually hit the centre of a city in Australia, so although the magnitude is low by big-quake standards, the effects were pretty major.
my dad was working at his desk and his work is next to an airport and where the quake hit he was on the phone and it went dead and he said it felt and sounded like a plane had crashed cause he said it felt like a wave or heat. Scary
28th dec 1989 . 1017am … I was 19 , working at kmart bateau bay .. It hit us the kmart auto office is still lop sided . We went to kmarts kotara and warabrook to help clean up .. It happened just 6 days after the kempsey bus crash and 2 months after the grafton bus crash . So much tragedy in such a great year ……….
I remember that day. I felt the tremor in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
I lived in lindsay st just 6 minutes walk to Beomount st, @ about 945am my mate was trying to talk me in to go and play pool @ The Kent Hotel and I new he just wanted to get on the piss and I said no. The pool table @ that time was in the front corner LUCKY!
its incredible it be 20 years this december i rember it like if it was yesterday
Neither will I. And I was in Muswellbrook when it happened
the day i will never foget
that was not cool, so much damage and casualties
I’m a 1991 baby so I missed the whole thing thank god but my Family lives their. What really caused the Earthquake cause apparantly the minning didn’t cause it or something?. I wonder if the show “Seconds From Disaster” covered this?
Did someone fart in your head?
OO did someone fart in newcastle??
Lol
Don’t take it so personal.
perhaps a short history lesson might be in order?
First fleet?
Convicts?
Or don’t Geordie schools teach real subjects anymore?
why have you got our counties names all over your ( sorry not your ) country ?
That would be considered a baby earthquake in California, but some areas do have strong earthquakes I’m not sure that australia does, does it?
Does ur bro still bathe you? (:0
Interesting vid.
No. My brother was bathing me. I remember they were telling me when I was much older about the whole ordeal. I remember fuck all when I was 7 months old. As would anyone.