";s:4:"text";s:1558:" news, local-news, newcastle earthquake, 1989, anniversary, kent hotel, hamilton, beaumont street, newcastle workers club STASIA Stella Rossi did not think she was going to make it out alive. Remembering the Newcastle Earthquake 25 years on By Robert Virtue On December 28th 2014, Newcastle will stop to remember the 25th anniversary of the city's devastating earthquake.
The 1989 Newcastle earthquake occurred in Newcastle, New South Wales on Thursday, 28 December. From her first breath she was known as “Quaker”, the wonder baby born on a lawn outside a Newcastle hospital as the city was being struck by a massive earthquake. Of these, 2800 records are available as electronic full-text records, digitised images, and sound and video files. Mrs Rossi had been alone inside her Beaumont Street baby and childrens wear shop Stellas when the building started to sway from side to side and her transistor radio crashed from the shelf. "The Newcastle earthquake was 5.6 but we had a 5.4 out at Cessnock in August 1994, which you could argue was the follow-up."
The Newcastle Earthquake Database is a valuable resource which records the events, the response, and the city's renewal following the 1989 earthquake.
Rescue workers check structural damage to a building in Newcastle, New South Wales, on Dec. 29, 1989.