Earthquake Information and Resources


Earthquakes in Australia Because of its location on the Ring of Fire, the geographic term for the Pacific Ocean ring that causes high amounts of seismic activity, the country of Australia is prone to having earthquakes. Earthquakes can occur anywhere in the country, many of them being as high as a 7.5 magnitude quake according the to Australian Earthquake Engineering Society. Read more
What Causes Earthquakes In between the molten core and surface crust of the earth, there is a mantle of liquid magma carrying semisolid plates. These plates hold the continents and the oceans and they are constantly in motion. This is the root cause of seismic activity from continental drift to volcanoes and earthquakes. Some plates are drifting away from each other, causing magma to seep up between the cracks to form new crust material. Others are sliding past one another or directly collide, one plate slipping beneath another to dissolve in the mantle. These kinds of plate movement cause earthquakes. Read more