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Australian earthquake fault plane solutions

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Australian earthquake fault plane solutions have been compiled for all of Australia and contains the focal mechanisms of all known Australian earthquakes for which a mechanism has been determined. A total of 107 Focal Plane Solutions (FPS) are presented for 84 earthquakes in Australia and the surrounding region. The earthquakes are presented in chronological order and for each one the hypocentre, magnitude, focal plane solution and picture is given. Where available additional comments are included as is the data used to determine the mechanism (typically first motion data). This is the first time mechanisms for Australian eathquakes have been compiled into an atlas.

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Title Australian earthquake fault plane solutions
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/22468aac-0c14-49d0-ad9a-153e7b5d39bb
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        113.0,
        -43.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -43.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -43.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian earthquake fault plane solutions". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-earthquake-fault-plane-solutions