I was three when this happen, i can still remember it, my dad and I were doing the shopping and i dropped my milky way when everyone was running...i'm glad we haven't been hit by another earthquake.
This is what's great about Australia; when something significant (like an Earthquake) happens; everyone stops what they're doing to make sure everyone else is ok like the people at 2:56 who are using their bare hands to go through rubble in search of survivors
Look, I live in Romania and this is not a large country by any means, but still we have on our territory about 6-7 potentially dangerous seismic sources, out of which 2 or 3 can be devastating.
The NC earthquake happened on my 11th birthday. That day, I learned that sometimes Mum has to work on birthdays, Dad shouldn't be left in charge when the present is a '50 science experiments for kids kit' (no kidding, I said maybe he shouldn't drop the magnesium flake in - the tube exploded, it was funny, and a bit messy) and that birds feel it a few seconds before we do. The budgies went nuts, then ground mumbled. We are a few hundred k's from NC so it didn't bother us untill we saw the news.
I was 21 & working in Hunter Street Newcastle at the time. My boyfriend worked in King Street & was one of the first on the scene of the workers club. I remember the twisted cars in the exposed underground car park. I get a few tears still, all these years latter.
Strange how moderate earthquakes are a much bigger deal in other parts of the world, they just don't have the same building codes as the US. I live in California and about a month ago we had a 5.7 40 miles for my home, it was no big deal, but then again we have them all the time.
@TheBuilder65 there has never been a need in australia to build buildings to be earthquake safe due to how uncommon they are in this part of the world.
@J0hnnyH4ck3r why? why do we need to build for something (that will just require more money) that has a 0.000000000000001% chance of occurring? (obvious exaggeration, but the chance in minimal)
@doggunn So that you will not have to watch how your mother/father/sister/brother/child/loved one dies right in front of you when half of your building collapses. I would say that's a pretty god damn good reason.
@doggunn Well that show how well people are informed about this. Earthquakes happen everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE ! It doesn't matter if you live on the top of a mountain, or under the sea, in large or small cities, on hills or plains, it WILL happen. In some places it happens every 5 years, others every 200 years, but it ALWAYS happens.
@trocariciu76 yes, no one ever said it couldn't occur or doesn't occur, however australia is not placed along any major fault lines, and so the only earthquakes that could affect it are intra-fault quakes, which are much rarer, and almost always less damaging. it's too hard to predict in a country like australia where these intra-fault earthquakes will occur - and so what reason do people have to shell out thousands of dollars more for an event that will most likely not happen in their lifetime?
1989 was a horrible year not just in Australia but around the world eg: Tianamens Square Massacre and the Newcastle Earthquake. 1989 is a year that will never ever be forgotten
I was 8 and at my Nan and Pop's in Charlestown. We thought the caravan hit the house. My brother was in Medowie at home listening to an AC/DC record on a barstool and fell off. It's funny the details you remember.
It is interesting to see how Hamilton's changed.
Also interesting to see the completely uninformed comments some troglodytes come up with. Get an education and have some respect for people who lost their lives.
28th of December 1989 at 10.27am I lived in Mc Michael st, about fifteen minutes walk from Bauemont st. I was three years old and slept right through it.
28th dec 1989 . 1017am ... I was 19 , working at kmart bateau bay .. It hit us the kmart auto office is still lop sided . We went to kmarts kotara and warabrook to help clean up .. It happened just 6 days after the kempsey bus crash and 2 months after the grafton bus crash . So much tragedy in such a great year ..........
I lived in lindsay st just 6 minutes walk to Beomount st, @ about 945am my mate was trying to talk me in to go and play pool @ The Kent Hotel and I new he just wanted to get on the piss and I said no. The pool table @ that time was in the front corner LUCKY!
I'm a 1991 baby so I missed the whole thing thank god but my Family lives their. What really caused the Earthquake cause apparantly the minning didn't cause it or something?. I wonder if the show "Seconds From Disaster" covered this?
Australia's had a lot of earthquakes over time - most of them are small, some areas are particularly prone to them (eg Cadoux and Meckering in WA). This is as far as I'm aware the only time a quake has actually hit the centre of a city in Australia, so although the magnitude is low by big-quake standards, the effects were pretty major.
Was at a church for a friends baby shower and i was holding onto the fence and then everything went crazy and i watched the church wobble like jelly!! : O
i was only a kid, i was in wallsend, i just remember the whole house shaking, my mum thought that someone had driven into the house and ran into the front room where my baby sister was sleeping :( twas a bit scary
I was living at Barnsley at the time and thought that one of the mines had collapsed. I endeavored to phone my husband at his job in Cardiff only to continually receive the engaged signal. It was a long 4 hours before he came home with tales of what happened to him and his colleagues. I was suppose to be in Hamilton that day, but had been asked to babysit a neighbors daughter which I am pleased I chose to do.
Watching this footage still brings a tear to my eye seeing the city in shreads...although parts of Newcastle look as bad now through the years of neglect.
I was there!! I was there!! I remember I was working at the Electricity Commission in Waratah at the time... I thought some bozo had driven a front-end loader into the building or something. After that we had alarms going off and engineers running all over the place =]
Wow! I had almost forgotten how scary that day was, but that video brings it all back.
My family had been to the Workers Club that morning, so my mum could renew her membership. I wonder if anyone in Newy still has their '5.5 and still alive' shirt?
Btw, to all the people swearing in this commentary - 13 people died and you're being incredibly disrespectful to that fact.
I'm from Newlambton and was at catherine hill bay at the time of the earth quake..heard heaps of sirens comin from sydney after being sat on my ass. My grandfather renewed his membership at 10;18 am that day. sill blows me away
My mum and Aunty were on the Stockton bridge. I'm glad that didn't come down, I was born in May 1989 so I felt it but I was in the bath, so it was like a Earthquake and a Tsunami for me ;P This is actually the first footage I have seen. Good footage too!
No. My brother was bathing me. I remember they were telling me when I was much older about the whole ordeal. I remember fuck all when I was 7 months old. As would anyone.
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i live in Newcastle but i was not born when it happend but my Mum always tells me what happend that day. 6 year's after the Earthquake was when i was born
I was asleep when this happen and woke up to be told I slept through an earthquake. Damn I alway miss out. My mum once told me a bomb wouldn't wake me.
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I was 4 years old when it happened and I still remember the day vividly...we lived in Eleebana and I was riding my trike on our deck (my sister was sitting on the swing) I then started pedalling really fast and my sister yelled " Xxxxx stop your making the house shake!" My Dad and other sister were raking leaves out the front, and they saw the vibration waves rolling up the street, then the destruction it left behind..RIP all the poor soles who passed away...
i wasnt born but my mum talks about it my bros were 6 and 4 my mum was in the shower in hamilton boys were in front room and it hit my mum thought a truck hit the house then another1 striked she ran through the house in her towel jumping over fallen down things got the boys and she was oughta there.
@olliethesmall That building still has earthquake damage. The basement floods whenever it rains, really should be condemned. I know because I worked there for a period of time.
i was a 2 yr old when it happend but i still remember it all i was watching my dad and siblings play cards and it hit and me and my brother and sister stood in one door way as there the safest place in a house dureing an earthquake 0.o
i was 4 and we lived in waratah west. all i can remember is the rumbling noise and wen i run down the hall to mum on the lounge the house just seemed to move and then it was ova. waratah wasnt hit to bad though.
i thought it was funny seeing those FTruck ambulances they still had them wen i was living there in 2003.
where u in the centre of that earthquake?? i felt it all the way up in sunderland in the northeast i was on mi laptop and everything started 2 move i thought it was just mi mate movin about but now i no i was rong mi m8 was asleep
I actually have a VHS tape of an hour long NBN special about this from 1990 (recorded from the television with some really old ads - like 'no interest until 1992'). I rediscovered it while going through old VHS tapes I was throwing out. I was 14 when this quake happened - surreal.
i would be very interested in seeing this is there anyway you could post this on you tube in segments. i was 8 yrs old when this happened in my house in merewether. i have been trying to find this as i remember watching it when it aired
i would be very interested in seeing this is there anyway you could post this on you tube in segments. i was 8 yrs old when this happened in my house in merewether. i have been trying to find this as i remember watching it when it aired
Don't have the know-how to do it unfortunately. I'm sure one of your relatives or someone would have recorded it at the time - I reckon there'd be loads of copies around.
I have the news reels recorded on VCR. I'm gonna get a capture card for some other VCR stuff. If I have the time I might pull the news articles for you and post them. Quality might be an issue but we'll see I guess. The first thing that will strike you is how retro the reporter's hair is!
I just missed two within about a month. I was in Newcastle in Nov 1989 when the San Francisco quake hit then a month later I was back home in Sacramento when the Newcastle quake hit.
No one expects earthquakes in Australia, although Newcastle has had a few. It is on the same fault line as Sydney, so Sydney is nearly as prone as Newcastle is. Cairns is the most dangerous on 6 fault lines, cyclones and prone to Tsunamis and sea swells. Chistmas brings disasters in Australia for some reason. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
i live in newcastle and this hapend be4 i was born but my mum and dad tell me a lote about the Earthquake and some say newcastle will get a nother Earthquake in a tho years
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Wonder why there's so many unreinforced brick buildings in Australia. Wouldn't be allowed in California. Guess the Aussies will start reinforcing soon. Or maybe not.
tragety, we dont get much quakes in vic, if when we do their litle tremors dandenong region. LoL at the cop cars, so prehistoric why fords in NSW ? our cops had VL turbos
I was on the south coast (Wollongong area) near Sydney in my parents holiday flat at the time, feeling the tremour there. The unit block shook, but it didnt last long, and no real major damage there. I heard later that Newcastle copped the full brunt of it. I knew exactly what was happening at the time. I had been warned of an increase in earthquakes around the world and Australia is not excempt from experiencing such things. (Mark 13:8)
yeah it was only 5.5 but we never ever had one before or since 1989 ... iam pretty sure the building regulations on earthquakes has improved since this :)
living in an earthquake zone, im amazed how unprepared other parts of the world are for them, and how much damage such a small earthquake (on my terms) can do, im shocked!
dip shit, this is the newcastle in australia NSW one. i know cos i used to live next to the buss depot. He even mentions Hamilton, which is next to Newcastle city and then they mention BHP which was based in newcastle during this! They even mention the Hunter Vally!
Why are you calling me a dipshit, I KNOW WHERE I LIVE!!!!, I Have been to that Bus depot many times, and My School is across the road from that ambulance station shown in the video, I think your a dip shit I know what city I live in!
if it had been 10.27pm crowded house would have been on stage at the workers club & it would have been packed.i was less than 2 k`s from Hamilton.a surreal moment.
Well, at least u are lucky because you had feel one earthquake, i had feel abaut 3 earthquakes one few weeks ago abaut 7.5 on Richters scale and abaut 2 minutes then other earthquakes in 2003,2001.
i hear you tom - it was nice to watch this again...
the 89 quack really was a formative experience, i guess. brought the city together and all that wank... and yeah - demolishing half of beaumont street was fantastic for the hamilton area.
Man i was 9 years old and riding my bike in swansea and the fuckin thing near threw me off,all i could hear was rumbling and screaming and things smashing and breaking,ill never forget that!!
Excellent piece of history there, nice one. I was working for the electricity commission at the time... I thought someone had rammed the building with a dozer. And man didn't the alarms go off!
No - its an earthquake when the earth moves, or a faultline fractures, or geologic stressors in the earth snap, give way, or separate....there is no specific magnitude on the Richter Scale to measure an earthquake than the standard 0 to open ended scale.....
from wikipedia (Richter Magnitude Scale) [edited]: A magnitude of 0 shows a maximum combined horizontal displacement of 1 micrometre on a seismogram recorded using a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer 100 km from the earthquake epicenter. Sensitive modern seismographs now routinely record quakes with negative magnitudes.
my pop was at the depot where they where filmimg when it happened. I see all these places everyday, Ambulance Station, Bus depot, Beaumont st, Workers club. I had No idea it was this bad.
if u go to the museum there is a display dedicated to the earthquake and it plays the full film of this documentory. the museum also has many other great diplays on newcastles history
Man I was there, (well at home in Belmont anyways). Holy shit that was huge, and it was only 5.6!!! I remembember the room movin side to side and this loud banging / rumbling noise and you just couldn't fuckin move at all. Didn't last long though which is good. But I was an 8 year old at the time but I won't forget this shit.
Wow, I still remember that day like it was yesterday. It's amazing that it was so quick on the video but it seemed to take forever when actually being there.
I was three when this happen, i can still remember it, my dad and I were doing the shopping and i dropped my milky way when everyone was running...i'm glad we haven't been hit by another earthquake.
heroicndashing 3 months ago
This is what's great about Australia; when something significant (like an Earthquake) happens; everyone stops what they're doing to make sure everyone else is ok like the people at 2:56 who are using their bare hands to go through rubble in search of survivors
shadowzone69 3 months ago
It's terrifying to see how much the Aussie accent has changed in 20-odd years. Jeez and we didn't even notice.
jq747 7 months ago
Look, I live in Romania and this is not a large country by any means, but still we have on our territory about 6-7 potentially dangerous seismic sources, out of which 2 or 3 can be devastating.
trocariciu76 8 months ago
The NC earthquake happened on my 11th birthday. That day, I learned that sometimes Mum has to work on birthdays, Dad shouldn't be left in charge when the present is a '50 science experiments for kids kit' (no kidding, I said maybe he shouldn't drop the magnesium flake in - the tube exploded, it was funny, and a bit messy) and that birds feel it a few seconds before we do. The budgies went nuts, then ground mumbled. We are a few hundred k's from NC so it didn't bother us untill we saw the news.
verticalsmurf 10 months ago
I live in sydney now and i was 3yrs old when this happen and im still in philippines.
mybgproductions 10 months ago
@mybgproductions - Re-post? I'm guessing something got lost in translation. You can't live in Sydney now and still live in the Philippines.
verticalsmurf 10 months ago
I was 21 & working in Hunter Street Newcastle at the time. My boyfriend worked in King Street & was one of the first on the scene of the workers club. I remember the twisted cars in the exposed underground car park. I get a few tears still, all these years latter.
ali68b 10 months ago
Strange how moderate earthquakes are a much bigger deal in other parts of the world, they just don't have the same building codes as the US. I live in California and about a month ago we had a 5.7 40 miles for my home, it was no big deal, but then again we have them all the time.
TheBuilder65 1 year ago
@TheBuilder65 there has never been a need in australia to build buildings to be earthquake safe due to how uncommon they are in this part of the world.
doggunn 10 months ago
@doggunn which, in my opinion is very stupid of us.
J0hnnyH4ck3r 10 months ago
@J0hnnyH4ck3r why? why do we need to build for something (that will just require more money) that has a 0.000000000000001% chance of occurring? (obvious exaggeration, but the chance in minimal)
doggunn 10 months ago
@doggunn So that you will not have to watch how your mother/father/sister/brother/child/loved one dies right in front of you when half of your building collapses. I would say that's a pretty god damn good reason.
SINEKT 8 months ago
@SINEKT and i agree. but how could you plan for something that hasn't occurred before?
doggunn 8 months ago
@doggunn Well that show how well people are informed about this. Earthquakes happen everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE ! It doesn't matter if you live on the top of a mountain, or under the sea, in large or small cities, on hills or plains, it WILL happen. In some places it happens every 5 years, others every 200 years, but it ALWAYS happens.
trocariciu76 8 months ago
@trocariciu76 yes, no one ever said it couldn't occur or doesn't occur, however australia is not placed along any major fault lines, and so the only earthquakes that could affect it are intra-fault quakes, which are much rarer, and almost always less damaging. it's too hard to predict in a country like australia where these intra-fault earthquakes will occur - and so what reason do people have to shell out thousands of dollars more for an event that will most likely not happen in their lifetime?
doggunn 8 months ago
@doggunn interesting fact the Hunter Valley in Australia does have a history of earthquakes, just not in the same way as California
clairabelle7 5 months ago
I was living in newcastle when thi happened and I was on;y 9!!!!
frogggles30 1 year ago
my mate steve pirie, agent 86, lent a helping hand to the people of beaumont street with some ciggarettes and coke to the workers. Go old pirmont.
foz88 2 years ago
damn sucks how i wasent born = (
xprettyflyx 2 years ago
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crazynat37 2 years ago
Lol, thats actually pretty funny
johno6989 1 year ago
20 years ago today!
andrew260378 2 years ago
Yeah and I still remember it like it was yesterday
IanGorton 2 years ago
1989 was a horrible year not just in Australia but around the world eg: Tianamens Square Massacre and the Newcastle Earthquake. 1989 is a year that will never ever be forgotten
crowdiegal 2 years ago
20th years remembing of Newcastle earthquake of 1989, 5.5, 13 dies. Sadly. Happy 20th years.
Losagirl1980 2 years ago
Shit could those old mark 2 merc buses do more then 100
I didn't realise that the earthquake damaged so much
910364 2 years ago
I was 8 and at my Nan and Pop's in Charlestown. We thought the caravan hit the house. My brother was in Medowie at home listening to an AC/DC record on a barstool and fell off. It's funny the details you remember.
It is interesting to see how Hamilton's changed.
Also interesting to see the completely uninformed comments some troglodytes come up with. Get an education and have some respect for people who lost their lives.
alibenety7 2 years ago
28th of December 1989 at 10.27am I lived in Mc Michael st, about fifteen minutes walk from Bauemont st. I was three years old and slept right through it.
InsanitySandwich 2 years ago
28th dec 1989 . 1017am ... I was 19 , working at kmart bateau bay .. It hit us the kmart auto office is still lop sided . We went to kmarts kotara and warabrook to help clean up .. It happened just 6 days after the kempsey bus crash and 2 months after the grafton bus crash . So much tragedy in such a great year ..........
polly326 2 years ago
its not 28th, 10:17am... it WAS Dec 26th (Boxing day) 10:27am, 1989.
Losagirl1980 2 years ago
It was the 28th.....
Ntin63 1 year ago
No the 28th is correct and it was at 10:27 am, 1989 :D!!
johno6989 1 year ago
I remember that day. I felt the tremor in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
aussiewomen 2 years ago
I lived in lindsay st just 6 minutes walk to Beomount st, @ about 945am my mate was trying to talk me in to go and play pool @ The Kent Hotel and I new he just wanted to get on the piss and I said no. The pool table @ that time was in the front corner LUCKY!
GTH408 2 years ago
its incredible it be 20 years this december i rember it like if it was yesterday
lake40 2 years ago
the day i will never foget
lake40 2 years ago
Neither will I. And I was in Muswellbrook when it happened
IanGorton 2 years ago
that was not cool, so much damage and casualties
gmspeedfreak 2 years ago
I'm a 1991 baby so I missed the whole thing thank god but my Family lives their. What really caused the Earthquake cause apparantly the minning didn't cause it or something?. I wonder if the show "Seconds From Disaster" covered this?
TravvyG 2 years ago
OO did someone fart in newcastle??
SunderlandAFC1001 2 years ago
Did someone fart in your head?
nomedeeps 2 years ago
why have you got our counties names all over your ( sorry not your ) country ?
wizzboy76 2 years ago
perhaps a short history lesson might be in order?
First fleet?
Convicts?
Or don't Geordie schools teach real subjects anymore?
gonzalezgibb 2 years ago
Lol
Don't take it so personal.
wizzboy76 2 years ago
That would be considered a baby earthquake in California, but some areas do have strong earthquakes I'm not sure that australia does, does it?
A2theO2010 2 years ago
Australia's had a lot of earthquakes over time - most of them are small, some areas are particularly prone to them (eg Cadoux and Meckering in WA). This is as far as I'm aware the only time a quake has actually hit the centre of a city in Australia, so although the magnitude is low by big-quake standards, the effects were pretty major.
orderinchaos 2 years ago
Does ur bro still bathe you? (:0
Interesting vid.
simipker 2 years ago
Was at a church for a friends baby shower and i was holding onto the fence and then everything went crazy and i watched the church wobble like jelly!! : O
MoRgZbRaH 2 years ago
I was 5 years old and was walking over the Tea Gardens bridge with my Mum...we felt nothing.
petalovespongy 2 years ago
i was only a kid, i was in wallsend, i just remember the whole house shaking, my mum thought that someone had driven into the house and ran into the front room where my baby sister was sleeping :( twas a bit scary
beksy23 2 years ago
what do you need to know?
roughnut1963 2 years ago
I was living at Barnsley at the time and thought that one of the mines had collapsed. I endeavored to phone my husband at his job in Cardiff only to continually receive the engaged signal. It was a long 4 hours before he came home with tales of what happened to him and his colleagues. I was suppose to be in Hamilton that day, but had been asked to babysit a neighbors daughter which I am pleased I chose to do.
roughnut1963 2 years ago
im from west wallsend and i was in the lounge room and the whole house shook
lake40 2 years ago
i'm doing an assignment on the newcastle earthquake so any help would be greatly appreciated
schwazer210 2 years ago
I was a baby and a wall nearly fell on me, luckily as everything started to shake my father rushed in and got me.
StevenAH89 2 years ago
Felt that earthquake on the Central Coast.
canibaal 2 years ago
daniel johns was there
thelichhero 2 years ago
That woman at 2:44 is scary, I wonder if she caused it!!
MitcheltonMilo 3 years ago
Watching this footage still brings a tear to my eye seeing the city in shreads...although parts of Newcastle look as bad now through the years of neglect.
bendiviolet 3 years ago
i reckon
sgntslaugh73r 3 years ago
I was there!! I was there!! I remember I was working at the Electricity Commission in Waratah at the time... I thought some bozo had driven a front-end loader into the building or something. After that we had alarms going off and engineers running all over the place =]
jq747 3 years ago
is this newcastle ontario canada?cuase that is where i live
PivotMaster79 3 years ago
Australia..
Funny accent for CA :)
AmbushGamer 3 years ago 2
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (East Coast, about 165km or 100 miles North from Sydney)
djshotty1969 3 years ago
i felt this in western sydney scared the shit out of me
charliecharlie200 3 years ago
Wow! I had almost forgotten how scary that day was, but that video brings it all back.
My family had been to the Workers Club that morning, so my mum could renew her membership. I wonder if anyone in Newy still has their '5.5 and still alive' shirt?
Btw, to all the people swearing in this commentary - 13 people died and you're being incredibly disrespectful to that fact.
TheHonAgathaRuncible 3 years ago
I'm from Newlambton and was at catherine hill bay at the time of the earth quake..heard heaps of sirens comin from sydney after being sat on my ass. My grandfather renewed his membership at 10;18 am that day. sill blows me away
seaeagles64 3 years ago
Yes I still have my TShirt with the 5.5 and I'm alive on it.....
injen2259 3 years ago
I wasn't born, but my cousin nearly died when her chimney fell down on her.
jabbid111 3 years ago
OK..For Those That Do Not Know..This Video Was Shot At Newcastle Australia..Which Is Approx 100 Miles North Of Sydney New South Wales.. :-)
Thank You.
Pinxton1955 3 years ago 3
newcastle is in england upon tyne
bankrolls123 3 years ago
newcastle is english city as far as i know
tuned2008 3 years ago
Newcastle is a Australian city too.Its approx 100 miles north of Sydney.
Pinxton1955 3 years ago 3
@tuned2008 yes it is in australia as well..i live there..always have
roughnut1963 1 year ago
i thought newcastle was in england
tuned2008 3 years ago
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Australia has done an amazing job at teacher you how to spell.
jaimecore 3 years ago
My mum and Aunty were on the Stockton bridge. I'm glad that didn't come down, I was born in May 1989 so I felt it but I was in the bath, so it was like a Earthquake and a Tsunami for me ;P This is actually the first footage I have seen. Good footage too!
Spyplane2005 3 years ago
You remember it when you were 7 months old? shit you must have a good memory!
f3514 2 years ago
No. My brother was bathing me. I remember they were telling me when I was much older about the whole ordeal. I remember fuck all when I was 7 months old. As would anyone.
Spyplane2008 2 years ago
Beaumont street is still as dead today as it was back in 1989, Newcastle is just going downhill.
Man, I'm kind of glad that I missed this by 2 years.
jaimecore 3 years ago
and those scientists said there would be no earthquakes in Aussie
Fitzy084 3 years ago
no. no scientists have ever said that.
uscurvy 3 years ago
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personalities 3 years ago
i love england
DUTCHBOYBL 3 years ago
thats not england
its aussieland
Marcus4president 3 years ago 9
i live in Newcastle but i was not born when it happend but my Mum always tells me what happend that day. 6 year's after the Earthquake was when i was born
hilaryduff4ever12 3 years ago 5
@hilaryduff4ever12 SAMES!
shordyinabox 1 year ago
I was asleep when this happen and woke up to be told I slept through an earthquake. Damn I alway miss out. My mum once told me a bomb wouldn't wake me.
MightyRoos 3 years ago
I was like a year old!
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rabiapr 3 years ago
so newcastle gets the odd quake.... and darwin gets cyclones yay! i'd prefer your quake over my cyclones though....
razgriz87 3 years ago
lol I remember this I was bout 6 on Holidays @ The Bay*
Puma1Aussi 3 years ago
I was 4 years old when it happened and I still remember the day vividly...we lived in Eleebana and I was riding my trike on our deck (my sister was sitting on the swing) I then started pedalling really fast and my sister yelled " Xxxxx stop your making the house shake!" My Dad and other sister were raking leaves out the front, and they saw the vibration waves rolling up the street, then the destruction it left behind..RIP all the poor soles who passed away...
speedymedic000 3 years ago
i wasnt born but my mum talks about it my bros were 6 and 4 my mum was in the shower in hamilton boys were in front room and it hit my mum thought a truck hit the house then another1 striked she ran through the house in her towel jumping over fallen down things got the boys and she was oughta there.
ollypriest 3 years ago
I wasnt born at the time, but i was baby inside a tummy!!! I hope im prepared if an earthquake strikes newcastle in the future.
dylan918 3 years ago
At least they got to go home from work. I still had to.
LouLou2u2 3 years ago
But did the bus strike ever get resolved?
Supermercado 3 years ago 2
i wasnt born then, but my mum worked in david jones at the time and it was absolutley terrible she said! i dont want to ever gt one.. too SCARY.
olliethesmall 3 years ago
@olliethesmall That building still has earthquake damage. The basement floods whenever it rains, really should be condemned. I know because I worked there for a period of time.
IanGorton 1 year ago
i was a 2 yr old when it happend but i still remember it all i was watching my dad and siblings play cards and it hit and me and my brother and sister stood in one door way as there the safest place in a house dureing an earthquake 0.o
minishaw 3 years ago
I was right above the Epi. I will never forget this day as long as I live.
RIP 13*
AmbushGamer 3 years ago
i was 4 and we lived in waratah west. all i can remember is the rumbling noise and wen i run down the hall to mum on the lounge the house just seemed to move and then it was ova. waratah wasnt hit to bad though.
i thought it was funny seeing those FTruck ambulances they still had them wen i was living there in 2003.
granthamboy85 3 years ago
i rememeber being a young kid about 10 yrs old in adamstown thinking that the garden city carpark had been blown up !!
tim204 3 years ago
we just got a 5.5 one.. couple of days ago in california.. near mexico... after the 5.5.. 15 other earthquakes started to happen
baalyezidi 4 years ago
we got a 5.2 one n the early hours of this morning
richold 3 years ago 2
where u in the centre of that earthquake?? i felt it all the way up in sunderland in the northeast i was on mi laptop and everything started 2 move i thought it was just mi mate movin about but now i no i was rong mi m8 was asleep
TomFeltonsGrl 3 years ago
i live just a few miles from the epi center, so yeah it was pretty damn powerful.
richold 3 years ago
i was shocked when i watched it it
dracomalfoy772 4 years ago
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Hey, don't get me wrong, Aussies great people. Australia a great place. They just need a little more earthquake savvy, that's all.
lasalleman 4 years ago
Why dont you go and bury some dead soldiers...moron
nineonezerothree 4 years ago 3
I actually have a VHS tape of an hour long NBN special about this from 1990 (recorded from the television with some really old ads - like 'no interest until 1992'). I rediscovered it while going through old VHS tapes I was throwing out. I was 14 when this quake happened - surreal.
nitro2038 4 years ago
i would be very interested in seeing this is there anyway you could post this on you tube in segments. i was 8 yrs old when this happened in my house in merewether. i have been trying to find this as i remember watching it when it aired
bichaelf 3 years ago
i would be very interested in seeing this is there anyway you could post this on you tube in segments. i was 8 yrs old when this happened in my house in merewether. i have been trying to find this as i remember watching it when it aired
bichaelf 3 years ago
Don't have the know-how to do it unfortunately. I'm sure one of your relatives or someone would have recorded it at the time - I reckon there'd be loads of copies around.
nitro2038 3 years ago
I have the news reels recorded on VCR. I'm gonna get a capture card for some other VCR stuff. If I have the time I might pull the news articles for you and post them. Quality might be an issue but we'll see I guess. The first thing that will strike you is how retro the reporter's hair is!
ADudeF1 3 years ago
thanks i would really appreciate that
bichaelf 3 years ago
I remember it well. Hard to believe it's been 18yrs!Thanks for putting this up.
teensmum 4 years ago
i rememer it quiet well now it has been 18 yrs today that it happen 28.12.1989 to 28.12.07 rip for those who died
lilydolphin 4 years ago
I just missed two within about a month. I was in Newcastle in Nov 1989 when the San Francisco quake hit then a month later I was back home in Sacramento when the Newcastle quake hit.
mike95826 4 years ago
god my dad was at home in Belmont when this struck and the cat outside went when the earthquake struck while my mum worked at the ANZ
I was born in 1991 so missed this
jackydoll123 4 years ago
No one expects earthquakes in Australia, although Newcastle has had a few. It is on the same fault line as Sydney, so Sydney is nearly as prone as Newcastle is. Cairns is the most dangerous on 6 fault lines, cyclones and prone to Tsunamis and sea swells. Chistmas brings disasters in Australia for some reason. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
saintfletcher 4 years ago
"Chistmas brings disasters in Australia for some reason."
"Hopefully some blessings this time around with continued the rain across drought ravaged western NSW.
danielmy08 2 years ago
i live in newcastle and this hapend be4 i was born but my mum and dad tell me a lote about the Earthquake and some say newcastle will get a nother Earthquake in a tho years
hilaryduff4ever94 4 years ago
same
N3L50N2580 4 years ago
omg :O
xmomo69 4 years ago
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Wonder why there's so many unreinforced brick buildings in Australia. Wouldn't be allowed in California. Guess the Aussies will start reinforcing soon. Or maybe not.
lasalleman 4 years ago
don't be a smug dick
PhilTeckAnimations 4 years ago 2
What a stupid comment? Typical uneducated American...
nitro2038 4 years ago 5
Some say i'd like to experience an earthquake.
wilkes85 4 years ago
shows you how the bay area has stricter building standards as we had a 5.6 with only cracked drywall!
Stealthguy06 4 years ago
tragety, we dont get much quakes in vic, if when we do their litle tremors dandenong region. LoL at the cop cars, so prehistoric why fords in NSW ? our cops had VL turbos
RetiredTurK 4 years ago
yeah true wtf fuking americanz lol no ofence
hellomoto8200 4 years ago
how on earth could anyone mistakingly think this was in America. T_T did you even watch it
MrWok 4 years ago
I was on the south coast (Wollongong area) near Sydney in my parents holiday flat at the time, feeling the tremour there. The unit block shook, but it didnt last long, and no real major damage there. I heard later that Newcastle copped the full brunt of it. I knew exactly what was happening at the time. I had been warned of an increase in earthquakes around the world and Australia is not excempt from experiencing such things. (Mark 13:8)
Roo
Roopalmer 4 years ago
The American Newcastle I presume ;)
Klaflefalumpf 4 years ago
Yup, I remember when we had a small earthquake and the entire class keep going, "What do we do!?!"
They did so many stupid things that if it wasnt a small one, they'd be dead...
+Live in california btw+
Lil0Fire0Imp 4 years ago
""primary school english teacher told ma 2 study dis""
irobot100wat 4 years ago
yeah it was only 5.5 but we never ever had one before or since 1989 ... iam pretty sure the building regulations on earthquakes has improved since this :)
FrogGodbee 4 years ago
living in an earthquake zone, im amazed how unprepared other parts of the world are for them, and how much damage such a small earthquake (on my terms) can do, im shocked!
kitsotana 4 years ago
its not a earthquake zone!
random7398 4 years ago
dip shit, this is the newcastle in australia NSW one. i know cos i used to live next to the buss depot. He even mentions Hamilton, which is next to Newcastle city and then they mention BHP which was based in newcastle during this! They even mention the Hunter Vally!
cashy55 4 years ago
Why are you calling me a dipshit, I KNOW WHERE I LIVE!!!!, I Have been to that Bus depot many times, and My School is across the road from that ambulance station shown in the video, I think your a dip shit I know what city I live in!
random7398 4 years ago
I had no idea this happened.
DrCrabfingers 4 years ago
if it had been 10.27pm crowded house would have been on stage at the workers club & it would have been packed.i was less than 2 k`s from Hamilton.a surreal moment.
znotty 4 years ago
Go NBN - have a go at the fashions - awesome!!
But seriously this was a mssive event in the cities history.
Thanks for uploading it ;)
Peace
BathingFrankyTv 4 years ago
Well, at least u are lucky because you had feel one earthquake, i had feel abaut 3 earthquakes one few weeks ago abaut 7.5 on Richters scale and abaut 2 minutes then other earthquakes in 2003,2001.
NSDA 4 years ago
my home town... certainly made us all realise exactley what it is to be a novocastrian... certainly a lot of lessons learnt
thompp 4 years ago
i hear you tom - it was nice to watch this again...
the 89 quack really was a formative experience, i guess. brought the city together and all that wank... and yeah - demolishing half of beaumont street was fantastic for the hamilton area.
2xanadu 4 years ago
Man i was 9 years old and riding my bike in swansea and the fuckin thing near threw me off,all i could hear was rumbling and screaming and things smashing and breaking,ill never forget that!!
dewsman 4 years ago
Excellent piece of history there, nice one. I was working for the electricity commission at the time... I thought someone had rammed the building with a dozer. And man didn't the alarms go off!
jq747 4 years ago
No - its an earthquake when the earth moves, or a faultline fractures, or geologic stressors in the earth snap, give way, or separate....there is no specific magnitude on the Richter Scale to measure an earthquake than the standard 0 to open ended scale.....
tornadochaser76 4 years ago
from wikipedia (Richter Magnitude Scale) [edited]: A magnitude of 0 shows a maximum combined horizontal displacement of 1 micrometre on a seismogram recorded using a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer 100 km from the earthquake epicenter. Sensitive modern seismographs now routinely record quakes with negative magnitudes.
Gicior 4 years ago
its an earthquake when its 6.0 or more
CoolHokage 4 years ago
Wow. there was a quake in Newcastle, California. I thought this was it.. awesome.
Mike2nr 4 years ago
I was a 9 year old kid when this happened but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Hard to believe it's been neraly 18 years
IanGorton 4 years ago
whats with all the lol`s i was there 13 people died
socialnacho 4 years ago
my pop was at the depot where they where filmimg when it happened. I see all these places everyday, Ambulance Station, Bus depot, Beaumont st, Workers club. I had No idea it was this bad.
random7398 4 years ago
wheres all the geordies
PLJLIPTIP 4 years ago
omg im in hunter valley. but i wasnt born yet. lol.
djmilo234 4 years ago
lol i was in 86.. im in same area.
acccrew01 4 years ago
88 for sure
murtleman224 4 years ago
great video!!
ive never seen anything about the newy earthquake before
heysalovesyah 4 years ago
if u go to the museum there is a display dedicated to the earthquake and it plays the full film of this documentory. the museum also has many other great diplays on newcastles history
granthamboy85 3 years ago
this is not newcastle, England lol
qalaliyow 4 years ago
Man I was there, (well at home in Belmont anyways). Holy shit that was huge, and it was only 5.6!!! I remembember the room movin side to side and this loud banging / rumbling noise and you just couldn't fuckin move at all. Didn't last long though which is good. But I was an 8 year old at the time but I won't forget this shit.
MrKnoxville351 4 years ago
Is that Hamilton STA bus depot???
random7398 4 years ago
Yes :-)
Pinxton1955 4 years ago
I was one year and one day old then, needless to say, I slept through the whole thing lol! we still have cracks in my house from it
lollipopgirl88 4 years ago
my god! i was a kid when this happened. i didnt realise it was so bad...
byronbee 4 years ago
it scared the shit out of me!
guitarsean2e 4 years ago
Oy vez
Jrnen2darkness 4 years ago
TRUE THAT NEWCASTLE IS THE BOMB!
being young when it happened i dont remember it
but when your taught it in school you didnt think it was that huge
but how scary would it have been to be on the ground during it
toysteddies17 4 years ago
Seems like yesterday.This is the greatest city in the world
jedd71 4 years ago
oh my god my uncle and aunty are in that pic HAHAA 6.58
MzKeLz 4 years ago
Wow, I still remember that day like it was yesterday. It's amazing that it was so quick on the video but it seemed to take forever when actually being there.
Jelly2003 5 years ago
Blimey!
andyee 5 years ago
interesting.
yeah i was there.
i think.
yeah i was just born haha.
libbylou112 5 years ago