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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... -
Disaster risk and resilience capability
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.... -
Geological Survey of Western Australia: SWAN takes off - a new seismic...
The Geological Survey of Western Australia, in collaboration with the Australian National University, Macquarie University, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and... -
Australian atmospheric pressure and sea level data during the 2022 Hunga...
On January 15, 2022, an ongoing eruption at the Hunga volcano generated a large explosion which resulted in a globally observed tsunami and atmospheric pressure wave. This paper... -
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)... -
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.... -
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... -
A tsunami scenario for Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tsunami hazard modelling for Tonga shows the potential impacts of tsunami generated by a very large earthquake on the nearby Tongan Trench. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Assessing tsunami hazard using heterogeneous slip models in the Mentawai...
Tsunami hazard maps are generated for the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia, to support evacuation and disaster response planning. A random heterogeneous slip generator... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Large earthquake recurrence in the Snowy Monaro region New findings to...
The Snowy Monaro region hosts major infrastructure critical to Australia’s energy and water security. It also hosts a number of active faults capable of hosting large... -
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... -
Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment 2018 WMS
As part of the 2018 Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment (TCHA), we compiled the geospatial raster dataset that can be accessible to internal and external users via ArcGIS online... -
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...