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National Hazard Assessments
Understanding disaster risk enables Government, industry and the community to make better decisions on how to prepare for disasters and improve the resilience of communities.... -
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TC Vance 20 years on
Severe TC Vance was one of the most intense cyclones to impact mainland Australia. The observed damage to buildings could be explained in terms of structural performance of... -
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The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA) - Derived Geo-spatial Product
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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Seismic Hazard Assessment in Australia: Can Structured Expert Elicitation...
The 2018 National Seismic Hazard Assessment of Australia incorporated 19 alternative seismic-source models. The diversity of these models demonstrates the deep epistemic... -
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Earthquake Scenario Selection Tool
The Earthquake Scenario Selection is an interactive tool for querying, visualising and downloading earthquake scenarios. There are over 160 sites nationally with pre-generated... -
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Using scenario simulation to inform disaster preparedness: scenario...
The Severe Wind Hazard Assessment project aims to provide DFES with intelligence on the scale of impacts that could arise from major tropical cyclone events in communities along... -
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Assessment of Tropical Cyclone Risk in the Pacific Region: Analysis of...
The Assessment of Tropical Cyclone Risks in the Pacific Region project represents a collaboration between DIICCSRTE and Geoscience Australia with PCRAFI and AIR Worldwide.... -
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A Far-Field Ground-Motion Model for Northern Australia from Plate Margin Earthquakes
At its nearest, northern Australia is just over 400 km from an active convergent plate margin. This complex and unique tectonic region combines active subduction and the... -
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Tropical cyclone return period wind hazard map
Tropical cyclone return period wind hazard layers developed using the Tropical Cyclone Risk Model. The hazard layers are derived from a catalogue of synthetic tropical cyclone... -
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The 30th September 2009 Sumatra Earthquake Padang Region Damage Survey
On the 30th September 2009 a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck West Sumatra in the Padang and Pariaman regions. It caused widespread damage to buildings and resulted and an... -
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Being Prepared for Earthquakes
You may not realise it but, on average, Australia is rattled every few days by an earthquake of magnitude 3 or above. We don’t feel every small tremor that happens, but the... -
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Shear-wave velocity and site-amplification factors for 50 Australian sites...
One-dimensional shear-wave velocity (VS ) profiles are presented at 50 strong motion sites in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. The VS profiles are estimated with the... -
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin Baseline Seismic Monitoring Project – Phase 1 Observations
Public concerns have been raised about the potential for induced seismicity as state and territory governments lift moratoriums on hydraulic stimulation activities for the... -
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Seismic hazard mapping of Papua New Guinea — 2019 revision
In this study, we performed a probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) for Papua New Guinea (Figure 1) to underpin a revision of the seismic zoning map for the national... -
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National Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Papua New Guinea (2019 Revision)
Through Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Geoscience Australia has been working closely with the Government of Papua New Guinea technical agencies (Rabaul... -
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Analysis of earthquakes using real map and data sets
Students can access and analyse real world earthquake data using online portals created by Geoscience Australia (GA) (Geoscience Australia data portal and Earthquakes@GA). The... -
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Teacher professional learning sessions - Secondary
These videos are recordings of online secondary teacher professional learning sessions, delivered by Geoscience Australia’s Education Team. “Can I Fall Down the Cracks?” Plate... -
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Reflections on the NSHA18: rethinking future seismic hazard assessments for Australia
An updated National Seismic Hazard Assessment of Australia was released in 2018 (the NSHA18). This assessment leveraged off advances in earthquake-hazard science in Australia... -
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A pragmatic approach to adjusting early instrumental local magnitudes for...
Prior to the development of Australian-specific magnitude formulae, the 1935 magnitude corrections by Charles Richter – originally developed for southern California – was almost... -
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Townsville local wind hazard assessment
An evaluation of the likelihood of tropical cyclone-related extreme winds, incorporating local effects on wind speed.