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Strengthening natural hazard risk assessment capacity in the Philippines: ...
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) and Geoscience Australia (GA) have developed a long-term partnership in order to better understand and reduce... -
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Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for South East Queensland - tropical cyclone...
The region of coastal South East Queensland (SEQ) represents a large concentration of population, business activity and infrastructure important to the economy of Queensland and... -
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Development of tsunami hazard maps for the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia,...
Heterogeneous distribution of slip during megathrust earthquakes has been shown to significantly affect the spatial distribution of tsunami height in both numerical studies and... -
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A global tsunami model (GTM) for coordinated tsunami hazard and risk assessment
The disasters caused by tsunamis the last 10 years have highlighted the need for a thorough understanding of the global and regional tsunami hazard and risk. At present, the... -
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Automated Relocation of the Petermann Ranges Aftershock Sequence
The Mwp 6.1 Petermann Ranges earthquake that occurred on 20 May, 2016 in the Central Ranges, NT, is the largest onshore earthquake to be recorded in Australia since the 1988... -
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A Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for Indonesia
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Tectonic geomorphology and Holocene uplift rates of the Lae Urban Area,...
The city of Lae is Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s second largest, and is the home of PNG’s largest port. Here, a convergence rate of ~50 mm/yr between the South Bismarck Plate and the... -
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Seismic hazard estimation in stable continental regions: does PSHA meet the...
Damaging earthquakes in Australia and other regions characterised by low seismicity are considered low probability but high consequence events. Uncertainties in modelling... -
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Sixth Generation Seismic Hazard Model of Canada: Input files to produce...
The 6th Generation Seismic Hazard Model of Canada (CanadaSHM6) provides the basis for seismic design values proposed by Natural Resources Canada for the 2020 edition of the... -
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RETIRED Landcover 25 - Water (Water Observations from Space - WOfS)
This record was retired 01/04/2022 with approval from M.Wilson as it has been superseded by eCat 146091 Geoscience Australia Landsat Water Observation Statistics Collection 3... -
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Surface rupture and distributed deformation revealed by optical satellite...
This investigation uses high-resolution optical satellite imagery to quantify vertical surface offsets associated with the intraplate 20 May 2016 Mw 6.0 Petermann Ranges... -
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An Empirical Fatality Model for Indonesia Based on a Bayesian Approach
Many earthquakes in Indonesia have caused a large number of fatalities. Disaster risk-reduction of fatalities requires a representative fatality model derived from fatality data... -
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Progress towards an understanding of tsunami risk in NSW
Tsunamis pose considerable risk to coastal communities around the globe and understanding this risk is a key aspect of emergency management and risk reduction. This paper... -
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Tropical Cyclone Impact Modelling System
This dynamic dataset is composed of data layers representing the potential damage arising from the impacts of Tropical Cyclone (TC) related winds on residential houses. The... -
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Where's the impact. Predicting damage from TCs in sparsely populated areas
Severe TC Ilsa crossed the Western Australian coastline approximately 120 km east of Port Hedland on Thursday 13 April 2023. Observations at Bedout Island were the highest wind... -
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Investigation of hot gas emissions from Koranga volcano, Papua New Guinea, in 1967
Hot emissions of mainly sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide took place from a mound in Koranga open cut, near Wau, following a landslide at the end of May, 1967. Rocks of the... -
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Open source flood simulation with a 2D discontinuous-elevation hydrodynamic model
A new finite volume algorithm to solve the two dimensional shallow water equations on an unstructured triangular mesh has been implemented in the open source ANUGA software,... -
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Australian Flood Risk Information Portal - Data Entry Guidelines November 2014
The Australian Flood Studies Database is available on line by Geoscience Australia via the Australian Flood Risk Information Portal. The database provides metadata on Australian... -
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Indonesia's Historical Earthquakes: Modelled examples for improving the...
With a population of over 250 million people, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world (United Nations, 2013). Indonesia also experiences more earthquakes than... -
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Australian local wind multiplier data
Using the new release of the local wind multipliers software (V.3.1) (eCat 145699) and an appropriate source of classified terrain data, local wind multipliers on a national...