Burakin, Western Australia

Burakin is a small town near Kalannie, [Western Australia|Kalannie] in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
The townsite was gazetted in 1928. The name is an Aboriginal word of unknown meaning, and was suggested by the Wongan Hills Road Board in 1927. The original spelling was to have been Borrikin.

Railways

Burakin is the junction for the Kalannie railway line">Kalannie, Western Australia">Kalannie railway line and the branch railway line to Bonnie [Rock, Western Australia|Bonnie Rock]. The line was completed on 27 April 1931. Despite aspirations for the railway in the 1930s. services between Beacon and Bonnie Rock were under threat of suspension in 1953, and closed in the same year.

Earthquakes

In 2000 and 2001 Burakin was the epicentre of a series of earthquakes, now known as the Burakin Swarm – a significant series of seismographic events that are considered important in understanding the South West Seismic Zone.