We frequently get very minor quakes in summer from the Korumburra fault in SE. Victoria, Australia. Never above 4.5 on the Richter scale.
Australia hasn't had it easy in the last few years natural disaster wise...
2009 -
Black Saturday Bushfires (quite a few friends lost their houses, nearly everyone I knew's houses were threatened by fire, and a family friend was killed)2009 - Earthquakes in Korumburra repeatedly shortly after Black Saturday - only 4.5 on the richter scale maximum. Some houses damaged.
2010 - Major flooding in Queensland
2010 - Minor flooding in Victoria and NSW
September 2010 - Major flooding in Victoria (I remember this well... There was water in the Mallee region for the first time in 30 years! The Murray River was quite flooded (I was staying in a house just across the NSW border that was below the Murray's peak flood level. :/)
December 2010 - Major flash flooding in Queensland
Jan 2011 - More flooding in Queensland, the worst recorded in Australian History...
Jan/Feb 2011 - Major flooding in Victoria (Melbourne Water claims it was a "One in 500 year event"). My street floods up to shin depth. I witness someone jetskiing up the road like a dumb bogan, until his propeller hits the asphalt and shatters.
Feb 2011 - Cyclone Yasi strikes the already stricken Queensland. Cyclone Yasi is larger than Katrina and looked to be affecting a larger population, but only one death was indirectly caused. Yasi was powerful enough that the TAIL END of the cyclone system was enough to cause heavy rain in Southern Victoria, nearly 3000km south.
So yeah, interesting for us. :/