Adelaide at risk of earthquake 30 times stronger than Christchurch
Researchers have made the startling discovery that Adelaide is at risk of an earthquake 30-times more powerful than the devastating 2011 Christchurch disaster that killed 139 people. Experts from Geoscience Australia, the University of Melbourne and the Seismology Research Centre recently excavated two large trenches along the Willunga fault, located just south of the city, and uncovered evidence of huge quakes that predated local records.
“We calculate the 55km active length of this fault could potentially host an earthquake as large as magnitude 7.
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