A small Aussie town has been shaken by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, which was felt by residents hundreds of kilometres away.

In a update on Australia's high-risk earthquake zones, one of the two areas includes Victoria's Latrobe Valley, flagged as the site of a potential nuclear reactor by the Coalition.

Earthquakes caused by human activity will now be included in the U.S. Geological Survey's seismic risk maps, the agency says, after a sharp rise in quakes linked to waste water disposal wells used ...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck the New South Wales Hunter Valley early on Wednesday morning, jolting awake residents across a wide swathe of eastern Australia, including parts of Sydney and ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful deep-sea earthquake damaged village buildings in eastern Indonesia early Tuesday, and its substantial shaking was widely felt in northern Australia ...