Out of interest (What was the shaking)

Regarding that hilarious "map" of Australia used by the Yanks, I guess detailed accurate maps are not necessary for an American Quarry nor Chinese Market Gardens

Cheers

dad

PS That's McDonalds Ranges

I reckon that is a great Map of Oz, no roads, all off-road, everywhere. yipppeee.


Scrubby.

dad1340....It's not McDonald, you can't get McWraps and Big Macs there, it's Macdonnell Ranges

Doug; I've been to the Macdonnell Ranges mate ... twice.

The "McDonalds" Ranges was in context with the Australian government selling out the farm.

I tried to add some humour to a serious issue.

It was supposed to be McFunny

Cheers

dad

dad1340...McThanks , I had a good McGrin ....McLMAO

You had both better learn how to spell the MacDonnell Ranges..... with a capital 'D'.

Ron,
I experienced the Adelaide earthquake of 1953 and at 5.5 Richter is listed among Australia's Top Ten. I would describe it as....... an interesting experience. It did cause $90M damage.

Allan, I worked right through the 6.9 Meckering earthquake, in Oct 1968 - driving a Cat dozer - and I never noticed a thing! LOL

I was working in the SE Wheatbelt about 160kms from Meckering at the time.
I remember it was a very pleasant Saturday morning, weatherwise - and the brother turned up about half an hour after the earthquake, asking if I'd felt the earthquake!
I didn't have a clue what he was talking about!

He'd driven into a neighbouring farm, canvassing for work, and he said as soon as he stepped out of the ute, the first thing startling thing he noticed, was a big water tank on a steel tankstand was rocking back and forth like crazy!
He said he thought he was seeing things, until the farmer ran out of the house with eyes like saucers!

My mum and Dad were living in Perth, on the banks of the upper part of the Swan River - and they were having a cuppa on their timber-floored big wide verandah at the time - and the old man said they saw a distinct wave travel through the verandah floor!

The Meckering earthquake did quite a bit of damage to numerous big Perth buildings, including the iconic stone Perth GPO in Forrest Place, which suffered extensive damage.



Cheers, Ron.

Thank you Ron for this video very very interesting you don't realise that we do get major earthquakes in Australia.

During the Meckering earthquake I was at hoe with my parents about 200 kilometres or so away, doing the washing, with our laundry being on a concrete verandah. It felt like I was standing on a boiling surface. Eventually a crack developed through the verandah and it remain a few millimetres higher one side of the crack. Then we heard on the radio about the damage at Meckering, and thought the reporters were grossly exaggerating. A lady on a nearby farm said she heard a noise that sounded like a train coming through, then felt the shaking. Although we'd had a number of minor earth tremors, we had not seen any real damage before in Western Australia.

Like Motherhen's "lady on a nearby farm", I was woken by a rumbling noise several seconds before I felt any shaking. I had actually sat up in my bed and listening before the shaking arrived. The shaking lasted for maybe 5 or 6 seconds.