Earthquakes in the Canberra Region - Geoscience Australia

Earthquakes in the Canberra RegionFigure 10. Isoseismal map of the magnitude ML 4.2 Brindabella NSW earthquake of 15February 1998 (local date). Open triangles are seismographs, the red triangle is theepicentre. Reported MM intensity values and isoseismal contours are shown; intensityvalues of 0 indicate the earthquake was not felt.On 19 August 1998 at 9.12 pm local time, a magnitude ML 3.0 earthquake occurred in theOrroral Valley, Namadgi National Park, ACT, approximately 43 km SSW of the CanberraGPO and 19 km SSW of Tharwa. Its epicentre was just west of the 1:100,000 Canberramap sheet area (Figure 2). The report and isoseismal map (Figure 11) for this earthquakewere compiled by Y Li and Andrew McEwin.13