Australia Earthquake Update; How Coal Mining Likely Triggered Recent Earthquakes

A recent series of more than 40 earthquakes in New South Wales struck the town of Muswellbrook, some of which were felt as far away as Sydney. As a result, several minor injuries and damage to more than 100 properties occurred. And yet, these earthquakes may have been induced by mining at the Mount Arthur Coal Mine. So, how did these earthquake occur, is it the mine or mining company’s fault, and are there any actual methods to prevent these quakes at the mine in question? This video will answer all of these questions. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work “Muswellbrook1“, is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, brightened darker and shadowed areas of the image, darkened bright areas of the image, increased image color saturation, text overlay, overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from “Muswellbrook and Mt Arthur“, by: Lock the Gate Alliance, lockthegatealliance, 2013, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: , Photo link: , CC BY 2.0. “Muswellbrook1“ is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by A special thanks to the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel: [1] [2] [3] [4] Subscribe to EarthquakeSim at: @EarthquakeSim If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: ) (YouTube membership: ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: ) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: ) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under “fair use“. If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at geologyhubyt@ and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video’s thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: CC BY 2.0: CC BY 4.0: Sources/Citations: [1] Earthquake location data and magnitudes (with the exceptions of magnitudes of the 2 largest quakes which I retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey) are © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021, CC BY 4.0 license. This material is used under the CC BY 4.0 license by Data can be accessed at [2] U.S. Geological Survey 0:00 Australian Earthquakes 1:44 Induced Earthquakes 3:26 Cause of Mining Earthquakes 4:22 Can You Solve This Problem?