Henley & Grange earthquake - 1964? - Newspaper clipping.

Made the Adelaide 'Advertiser' newspaper front page.

BUT was eternally made fun of by school pals - at Henley High School they hadn't felt it. I was at my aunt's home on Military Road, Henley Beach (3 houses south of North Tce), sitting on a concrete porch. I'd left school early to go to a doctor's appointment. It felt like a big rumbling truck to me, and I looked for it, but couldn't see one. That was more than a mile away from the Tucker/Pearson home in Grange, mentioned in the article.

I remember the 'big' one in Adelaide when we were soundly shaken in the early 1950s. At the time I shared a bedroom with my Mother. I believe it was the early hours of the morning. I woke up, and the windows were shaking - like a rumbling was happening. At the time the railway line was on Military Road, just below us, at our back fence, with house on Seaview Road. Mum had her bed light on, and I asked her what was happening. She told me it was a train going by, to go back to sleep (thanks Mum! - just as well the house didn't come crashing down!). The windows were 'old' glass with rope pulls at the sides. They did rattle with buses on Seaview Road in later years. 

UPDATE - ADD ON: Seems I've already posted on this. See http://bornin1948.blogspot.com/2012/04/earthquake-newsclipping-adelaide-beach.html and also http://bornin1948.blogspot.com/2012/04/earthquake-hits-adelaide-south.html