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Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Papua New Guinea: 2019 revision
Papua New Guinea (PNG) lies in a belt of intense tectonic activity that experiences high levels of seismicity. Although this seismicity poses significant risks to society, the... -
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Connecting climate and catastrophe models for tropical cyclones
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are leading the development of consistent risk information relating to the potential impacts of disasters across Queensland. The stated... -
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Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland – Project Factsheet
The Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland - SWHA(Q), is a collaborative project between Geoscience Australia (GA) and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) which... -
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Historical earthquakes of the eastern Sunda Arc: Source mechanisms and...
Historical reports of earthquake effects from the period 1681 to 1877 in Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara are used to independently test ground motion predictions in Indonesia’s... -
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Australian local wind multiplier software
Wind multipliers are factors that transform regional wind speeds to local wind speeds considering local effects of land cover and topographic influences. It includes terrain,... -
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Australian Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment Collection
The national Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment (TCHA) defines the severe wind hazard posed to Australia based on the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones making... -
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Deaggregating the differences between seismic hazard assessments at a single site.
In the last few years there have been several probabilistic seismic hazard assessments (PSHA) of Adelaide. The resulting 500 year PGA obtained are 0.059, 0.067, 0.109 and 0.141.... -
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National Seismic Hazard Assessment 2018 Web Map
As part of the 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA), we compiled the geographic information system (GIS) dataset to enable end-users to view and interrogate the NSHA18... -
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Fragility of Indonesian houses: scenario damage analysis of the 2006...
Indonesia is located in one of the most seismically active regions in the world and often experiences damaging earthquakes. In the past the housing sector has sustained more... -
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Real-Time Community Internet Intensity Maps and ShakeMaps for Australian Earthquakes
Geoscience Australia provides 24/7 monitoring of seismic activity within Australia and the surrounding region through the National Earthquake Alerts Centre (NEAC). Recent... -
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An Atlas of Earthquake Scenarios for Australian Localities
Geoscience Australia has produced an Atlas of Australian earthquake scenarios (the Atlas) to support planning and preparedness operations for emergency management agencies. The... -
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A low-cost seismic network for Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is situated at the edge of the Pacific “ring of fire” and is exposed to frequent large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Earthquakes in PNG, such as... -
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Preparing for a category 5 cyclone landfall in Western Australia
Consider you are responsible for providing an emergency response in Karratha. There is a category 4 cyclone sweeping towards the coast and Bureau of Meteorology forecasts... -
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Source and Attenuation Properties of the 2012 Moe Earthquake Sequence,...
The local magnitude ML 5.4 (MW 5.1) Moe earthquake on 19 June 2012 that occurred within the Australian stable continental region was the largest seismic event for the state of... -
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Earthquake and Tsunami Safety Bookmark
Bookmark developed during the year of the 30th anniversary of the Newcastle earthquake and used to raise awareness of earthquakes and to provide information on what to do in an... -
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Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Western Australia: Data Collection –...
This dataset contains a collection of ESRI geodatabases that hold hazard and impact data derived as part of the Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Western Australia (2017-2020)... -
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The Mw 5.9 Woods Point Earthquake: A Preliminary Investigation of the Ground...
The 22 September 2021 (AEST) moment magnitude MW 5.9 Woods Point earthquake was the largest in the state of Victoria’s recorded history. The ground motions were felt throughout... -
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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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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami explanatory animations and illustrations
A selection of images and short animations explaining key aspects of the 2004 Indian Ocean/ Sumatra tsunami, revised and issued for release to the media and other interested... -
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Evaluation of severe wind hazard from tropical cyclones - current and future...
In June 2012 Geoscience Australia was commissioned by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to undertake detailed wind hazard assessments for 14...