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Earthquakes in the Canberra Region
This booklet is an update of Earthquakes in the Canberra Region published by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO, now Geoscience Australia) and the ACT Emergency... -
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Australia's seismogenic neotectonic record: a case for heterogeneous...
Australia's rich neotectonic record provides an opportunity to better understand the characteristics of seismogenic intraplate deformation, both at the scale of a single... -
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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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Impacts of climate change on tropical cyclone hazard: current understanding...
There has been much debate on the influence climate change may have on global tropical cyclone activity (Webster et al. 2005, Landsea 2005, Emanuel 2005, Knutson et al. 2001),... -
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Tectonic geomorphology of Australia
The Australian continent is actively deforming in response to far-field stresses generated by plate boundary interactions and buoyancy forces associated with mantle dynamics. On... -
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Australian Flood Studies Database - Cataloguing and Uploading Guidelines
The Australian Flood Studies Database is available on line by Geoscience Australia. The database provides metadata on Australian flood studies and information on flood risk with... -
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Source and Ground Motion Models for Australian Earthquakes
This article summarizes a report prepared for Geoscience Australia by Paul Somerville, Robert Graves, Nancy Collins, Seok Goo Song and Sidao Ni of URS Corporation. The report... -
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Landslide Costs in the Wollongong Region
The cost of landslide is underestimated in Australia because the impact and loss associated with these events are not readily reported or captured. There is no reliable source... -
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The Australian Neotectonics Database: factsheet
The Australian Neotectonics Database hosts an inventory of over 300 Australian intraplate faults and fault related folds that are known or suspected to be associated with... -
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Defining an active fault in the Australian intraplate context, with some...
Defining a neotectonic fault in the intraplate context is relatively straightforward - the fault must have hosted displacement in the current crusta stress regime. Defining an... -
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Tsunami Modelling Validation: The Impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on...
In response to the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami (IOT) that occurred on the 26th of December 2004, Geoscience Australia developed a framework for tsunami risk modelling. The... -
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Style and timing of late Quaternary faulting on the Lake Edgar Fault,...
Geomorphic mapping of the ~30 km Lake Edgar fault scarp in SW Tasmania suggests that three large surface-rupturing events with vertical displacements of 2.4 - 3.1 m have... -
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Australian Geomagnetic Reference Field (2000 revision AGRF00) (National...
The AGRF is a numerical model of the earths magnetic field over the Australian region. The model can be used to generate single point or gridded values of any element of the... -
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Community Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Contributing to total risk assessment
The impact of natural hazards on Australian communities can be devastating. After such events, the devastation is commonly measured in terms of costs to property, businesses and... -
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The Rabaul Earthquake Location and Caldera Structure (RELACS) Program :...
A component of the PNG-Australia Volcanological Services Support (VSS) Project funded by AusAID -
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NEXIS National Workshop Report 2009
Decision making on community, government and business vulnerability and risk requires a reliable understanding of the nature of the assets at risk. These include people,... -
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Earthquake risk in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie
In addition to the devastating 1989 Newcastle earthquake, at least four other earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater have occurred in the surrounding Hunter region since European... -
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National Exposure Information System Program for Townsville 28 October 2010 Agenda
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NEXIS Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Fundamental to an understandng and management of risk is reliable information about what is exposed to natural hazards and threats. Exposure includes people, buildings, business... -
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Reforming Planning Processes Trial: Rockhampton 2050: Technical Report on...
Potential impacts of climate change present significant challenges for land use planning, emergency management and risk mitigation across Australia. Even in current climate...