It reached a Richter magnitude of 5.5 and caused significant structural damage in a wide area.

In the area of Moss Vale, Robertson, and Bowral about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Sydney, the earthquake caused significant structural damage to buildings, while rockfalls blocked the nearby Macquarie Pass.

Sydney suffered minimal damage from the earthquake itself, though the tremors and resulting power failures caused "considerable alarm".

[2] Seismograms at the Sydney suburb of Riverview were used to estimate the magnitude of the earthquake.

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