A remote community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands have woken up to rattling shelves and swinging lights caused by a magnitude-5.5 earthquake, Geoscience Australia says.

An earthquake has struck Macquarie Island to the south of Australia. The United States Geological Survey reported the 'strong' magnitude 5.7 quake hit the island in the Southern Ocean just before 5pm.

A rare earthquake of magnitude 5.9 rattled the Melbourne area Wednesday morning in what was the largest tremor to hit southeast Australia in nearly five decades. The earthquake’s epicenter was near ...

A deep 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit one of Australia's closest neighbours. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center advised no tsunami was expected after the earthquake struck the Tonga islands on ...