St George Floods and now an Earthquake??

Just saw on the news that St George had it's second flood peak in as many weeks only to have an earthquake hit today as well.

AN earthquake in central southwest Queensland early this morning has left residents feeling slightly rattled.
At 5:40am (AEST) an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale occurred between Dirranbandi and St George, about 500km southwest of Brisbane.

Australian Seismological Centre director Kevin McCue said the earthquake was big enough to do minor non-structural damage to local properties and felt out to a distance of 30km or 40km.

"It wouldn't have been enough to wake people up but anyone who's a light sleeper or awake would have felt a slight rattle," he said.

"Local farmers may have had minor cracks in their homes near the epicentre."

The earthquake was measured on seismographs as far as northern South Australia.

Mr McCue said the area is well-known to seismologists because of a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in 1954, although small earthquakes are generally recorded every four to five years.

Queensland's largest earthquake, a magnitude 6, was recorded near Rockhampton in 1918, in the same year as the largest flood in that area.



I wonder what else will happen out there


Cheers Kev