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10% in 50 year seismic hazard map
The 10% in 50 year seismic hazard map is the key output from the 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia (NSHA18) as required for consideration by the Standards... -
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The 2018 national seismic hazard assessment of Australia: Quantifying hazard...
Seismic hazard assessments in stable continental regions such as Australia face considerable challenges compared with active tectonic regions. Long earthquake recurrence... -
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Exploring Australian Hazard Map Exceedance Using an Atlas of Historical ShakeMaps
This paper explores several area-based tests of long-term seismic hazard forecasts for the Australian continent. Using the observed seismicity, ShakeMaps are calculated for... -
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The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia. Model Input and...
This Geoscience Australia Record contains technical data and input files that, when used with the Global Earthquake Model’s (GEM’s) OpenQuake-engine probabilistic seismic hazard... -
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The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia – Data package,...
Geoscience Australia, together with contributors from the wider Australian seismology community, has produced a National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18) that is intended as... -
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Surface rupture and distributed deformation revealed by optical satellite...
High‐resolution optical satellite imagery is used to quantify vertical surface deformation associated with the intraplate 20 May 2016 Mw 6.0 Petermann Ranges earthquake,... -
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Reviewing the 1 March 1954 Adelaide Earthquake, South Australia
The 1 March 1954 earthquake in South Australia is the most damaging earthquake to impact the densely populated Adelaide region since European settlement. Previous... -
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Expert elicitation of model parameters for the 2018 National Seismic Hazard...
The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18) aims to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of seismic hazard in Australia. As such, NSHA18 includes... -
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Potential geologic sources of seismic hazard in Australia’s south-eastern...
Many mapped faults in the south-eastern highlands of New South Wales and Victoria are associated with apparently youthful topographic ranges, suggesting that active faulting may... -
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The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia. Model Overview
Geoscience Australia, together with contributions from the wider Australian seismology community, have produced the 2023 National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA23), intended... -
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Earthquake forecasting from paleoseismic records
Forecasting large earthquakes along active faults is of critical importance for seismic hazard assessment. Statistical models of recurrence intervals based on compilations of... -
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Earthquake sources of the Australian plate margin: data for the 2018...
This ecat record refers to the data described in ecat record 123048. The data, supplied in shapefile format, is an input to the 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for... -
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Large earthquake recurrence on the southern Willunga Fault, South Australia
The presence of Pliocene marine sediments in the Myponga and Meadows basins within the Mt Lofty Ranges south of Adelaide is testament to over 200 m of tectonic uplift... -
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Yes, earthquakes happen in Australia - are we prepared?
People in Australia are surprised to learn that hundreds of earthquakes occur below our feet every year. The majority are too small to feel, let alone cause any damage. Despite... -
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Extirpations and extinctions: a plant microfossil-based history of the...
Sites recording the extinction or extirpation of tropical–subtropical and cool–cold temperate rainforest genera during the Plio–Pleistocene aridification of Australia are... -
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2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment: Questions and Answers
The National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA) is a flagship Geoscience Australia product, used to support the decisions of the Australian Building Codes Board Standards... -
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Ground-motion models for the 6th Generation Seismic Hazard Model of Canada
The 6th Generation seismic hazard model of Canada is being developed to generate seismic design values for the 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC2020). Ground-motion... -
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Southwest Australia Seismic Network (SWAN): recording earthquakes in...
The geological structure of southwest Australia comprises a rich, complex record of Precambrian cratonization and Phanerozoic continental breakup. Despite the stable continental... -
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A record of stable continental region earthquakes from Western Australia...
In plate boundary regions moderate to large earthquakes are often sufficiently frequent that fundamental seismic parameters such as the recurrence intervals of large earthquakes... -
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Neotectonic constraint on models of strain localisation within Australian...
The mechanisms that lead to the localisation of stable continental region (SCR) seismicity, and strain more generally, remain poorly understood. Recent work has emphasised...