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Proof: ‘It sounded like a plane had crashed outside’: Biggest earthquake in years rocks state

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T01:02:28Z","headline":"‘It sounded like a plane had crashed outside’: Biggest earthquake in years rocks state","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-earthquake-late-night-tremor-rattles-victoria-20261003-p612ig.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

a61a49138f74c14fbef1579a20112d7ece21c5a81a95232a0e4a099eed568278

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969655, mined 2026-10-03 02:11 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:07 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a61a49138f74.json prints a61a49138f74c14fbef1579a20112d7ece21c5a81a95232a0e4a099eed568278. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a61a49138f74.json and headline-a61a49138f74.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-a61a49138f74.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.