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From Breadalbane to Barton: Residents feel Canberra region’s largest earthquake since 1977

On Wednesday evening, just before 7:10pm, Claudine Thomasset was sitting on the couch in Breadalbane, NSW, with her dachshund Paris, when her house started shaking.

ACT community urged to practice earthquake safety

Canberra has a higher seismic risk than almost any other capital city, and the public is encouraged to practice earthquake safety

Canberra man’s emotional reunion with fragments from his past

When Higgins resident Chris Carson was eight years old and sitting on a bus in the Victorian town of Benalla, he witnessed a meteorite plummet to Earth. He never imagined one day he’d hold that seven-billion-year-old space rock as a project geologist at Geoscience Australia.

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