I spent a couple of days in late January 1990 running around Newcastle with Kevin
McCue of ANU, Canberra, while he serviced some Kalungie portable autonmous
digital seismographs (built by Gary Gibson and others at RMIT, Melbourne) that he
had deployed to record aftershocks of the 28 Dec event.

Seisguy@....... wrote:

> Newcastle to remember earthquake victims
>
>
> Ten years after the devastating Newcastle earthquake the city will  pause
> today to remember those who lost their lives.
>
> The 1989 earthquake claimed 13 lives, injured 160 people and caused  more
> than a billion dollars damage.
>
> It was 10.27am on December 28, 1989 when the quake measuring 5.5 on  the
> Richter scale rocked Newcastle, with the epicentre at Cardiff  on the city's
> outskirts.
>
> Nine people died when the Newcastle Workers' Club collapsed, three  were
> killed in the suburb of Hamilton and another person died in  hospital.
>
> A commemorative service will be held at Civic Park this morning, to  remember
> those who died.
>
> Ten thousand buildings were damaged, prompting a "shake up" of  national
> construction codes so that all areas now have to consider  earthquake risk in
> building designs.
>
> A decade on and many Newcastle buildings still bare the scars of  the
> earthquake with the most notable being the Royal Newcastle  Hospital which is
> now facing closure and redevelopment, despite  early attempts to prevent its
> demolition.
>
> Meanwhile, the Lord Mayor's Disaster relief fund was established  after the
> quake and $9 million was spent assisting victims.
>
> The fund is now a permanent fixture, with $4 million in assets.
> Chairman Alwyn Druce says it has been used for disasters around the  country,
> including the Sydney hail storm. "It has spent $600,000 or $700,000 assisting
> people in distress all  over Australia so I believe we've used the money
> wisely, instead of  building monuments we've rather spent the money on more
> human  efforts relieving hardship for people that have suffered from other
> disasters within Australia."  Tuesday 28 December, 1999 9:32am AEDT
>
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