Nana Flint
Right. The ground out near Amata moved half a metre, straight up, and stayed there.
On the record: a magnitude 5.5 quake hit the APY Lands near the SA and NT border in early April. Geoscience Australia had about thirty felt reports that morning. University of Melbourne researchers went out and found a rupture three or four kilometres long. Mark Quigley says it has permanently changed the landscape.
Geoscience Australia's Jonathan Bathgate points out it's the same size as Newcastle in 1989. It just happened where hardly anyone lives.
No one to blame on this one. It's the country doing what country does. My two bob: I spent forty years pegging lines on ground I thought was finished moving. Clearly I was wrong.
Source: ABC News, 2026-05-20
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