History Notes - not too often we get an earthquake
History Notes
This could be the busiest week of the year for Historical Society members – a time for members to lend a hand to those who give a lot of time to the Society. Please read the advertisement and come along to at least one of this week’s events.
I wonder if anyone felt the earthquake during the week? Perhaps there are some people who remember the last one, 34 years ago? I remember one of our past members remarking that her chimney rattled!! After quite a search through the newspaper cuttings I was able to find the report for the 1990 earthquake.
“In the early morning of November 16th, 1990, there was a very deep earthquake centered 20 kilometres east of Barraba and felt over a 100-kilometre radius of Woods Reef along the Peel fault. This fault runs along between the granite and the sedimentary rocks and contains gold, asbestos and other interesting deposits. The occasional movement of this fault causes a small earthquake anywhere along the fault and the latest movement would have caused last week’s quake.”
Other movements mentioned in the newspaper cutting in 1990 were in the Tamworth/Gunnedah area measuring 2.2 and another at Elsmore on January 4th measuring 2.7. These would have been aftershocks.
While searching for the earthquake cutting, I found a photo of the Barraba Apex Club polishing the Copper Plaques on Barraba’s War Memorial Clock for Anzac Day, 1990. There were four of them in the photo, but no names given – perhaps someone will remember who they were. Perhaps the plaques need another polish this month!!
There are a lot of interesting cuttings as well, lots of dates of past events if one has the time to read through them – they span about 50 years – births, deaths, buildings etc. but not all happenings are included. Unfortunately, there are people who like to take such research material, so hopefully they will be available to anyone who asks. The history notes are there in the old Barraba Gazette for 1990!!