The Earthquake Shakes the Land

The Earthquake Shakes the Land is an Australian radio play in verse by Douglas Stewart. It concerns the Invasion of the Waikato in the New Zealand Wars. It was a companion piece to Stewart's The Golden Lover.

The play was well regarded. The ABC produced it again in 1948.

The Bulletin reviewed it saying the play was "something too big for an hour and a half of radio. It is right that it should be played fast, but haste is different ; and the impression is that this is being hastily done."

Leslie Rees wrote "it had only a half-success when heard on the A.B.C. air." Unlike Stewart's other verse plays performed on radio, The Fire in the Snow, Ned Kelly, Shipwrecked, Fisher's Ghost and The Golden Lover, it was not published in book form.

Premise
During the New Zealand Wars, a Maori woman, Ngaere, had to choose between two lovers, one a Scottish settler, the other, a Maori.