As Australia does not sit anywhere near a fault line, how did it experience an earthquake today?
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It doesn’t sit anywhere near a tectonic boundary. It does have a number of fault lines.
Tectonic plates undergo a lot of stress. They can fracture quite far from their boundaries. These are fault lines. Through them stress can be released.
Tectonic plates also over time fracture into multiple new plates (they also fuse together).
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