REMEMBERING THE NEWCASTLE EARTHQUAKE
Dec 23, 2019
2 minutes
By John Burfitt
The reports at the time claimed the Newcastle earthquake sounded like the ground cracking apart, a train crashing into a wall and a deafening rumbling. But to Bruce Hounslow, then a paramedic, the sound as the earthquake tore through the NSW steel city 30 years ago is one he will never forget.
“I remember hearing an almighty bang,” Bruce, now 70, says of that
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