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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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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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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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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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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... -
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Selection and ranking of ground-motion models for the 2018 National Seismic...
One of the key challenges in assessing earthquake hazard in Australia is understanding the attenuation of ground-motion through the stable continental crust. There are now a... -
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Earthquake sources of the Australian plate margin: Revised models for the...
Located within an intraplate setting, continental Australia has a relatively low rate of seismicity compared with its surrounding plate boundary regions. However, the plate... -
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Large earthquake recurrence on the Willunga Fault, South Australia
In mid-2022 two paleoseismic trenches were excavated across the Willunga Fault at Sellicks Hill, ~40 km south of Adelaide, at a location where range front faulting displaces a... -
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The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment: Model overview
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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National Seismic Hazard Assessment: Fact Sheet
Geoscience Australia is the Australian Government advisor on the geology and geography of Australia, and develops the National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA). The NSHA defines... -
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The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia: Earthquake...
The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18) is a flagship Geoscience Australia product, used to support the decisions of the Australian Building Codes Board and... -
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The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment for Australia: Model input files
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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